hive

Hive commonly refers to a beehive, the structure in which honeybees live and raise brood. A beehive can be natural, such as a hollow tree, or a managed hive kept by beekeepers. In a typical hive, a queen and a large number of workers cooperate to build wax combs, rear young bees, and store honey and pollen. The colony's organization and communication are essential to foraging, defense, and temperature regulation within the nest. The term hive can also describe the colony itself rather than the nest.

Apache Hive is a data warehousing infrastructure built on Apache Hadoop. It provides a SQL-like language, HiveQL, translating queries into MapReduce, Tez, or Spark jobs for processing large data sets on the Hadoop Distributed File System. Hive uses a metastore for metadata about tables and partitions and supports formats such as text, ORC, and Parquet. It is designed for batch analytics rather than low-latency queries and has evolved to include ACID support and an optimized execution engine in recent versions.

Hive (board game) is an abstract strategy game designed by John Yianni and released in 2001. It uses hexagonal tiles representing insects, each with unique movement rules, on a board with no fixed edges. Players alternate moving pieces to surround the opponent's queen bee while keeping their own queen free to move. The game emphasizes tactical positioning and emergent strategy from simple rules. It has digital ports and a dedicated community.