Using Hive in the cloud

Right now, all major cloud service providers, such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, offer matured Hadoop and Hive as services in the cloud. Using the cloud version of Hive is very convenient. It requires almost no installation and setup. Amazon EMR (http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/) is the earliest Hadoop service in the cloud. However, it is not a pure open source version since it is customized to run only on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hadoop enterprise service and distribution providers, such as Cloudera and Hortonworks, also provide tools to easily deploy their own distributions on different public or private clouds. Cloudera Director (http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/products-and-services/director.html) and Cloudbreak (https://hortonworks.com/open-source/cloudbreak/), open up Hadoop deployments in the cloud through a simple, self...