Apache Hive Data Types Hive is Data warehousing tool and used to process the data stored in hadoop and HDFS. Hive is similar to SQL because it analyze and process the data through querying language. In this article we are discuss about basic data types for Hive query processing. Hive Data Types are classified into four types, given as follows Column Types Literal Null Values Complex Types Column Types: 1. Integral Integer type data can be used to Integral data types. Integral data types mentioned as INT. There are four types INT data types TINYINT (1-byte signed integer, from -128 to 127) SMALLINT (2-byte signed integer, from -32,768 to 32,767) INT (4-byte signed integer, from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647) BIGINT (8-byte signed integer, from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807) 2. String Types: String Data Types mentioned by Single Quotes and Double Quotes. It contains two types – CHAR, VARCHAR CHAR – CHAR is the f...