The primary concept of Big Data lies in dealing with enormous volumes of data that traditional software applications cannot support. So applications that can handle the sheer volume and support scalability are needed for Big Data storage and analytics. Apache Hive is a fault-tolerant, distributed platform that allows data analytics operations on a massive scale. It allows users to write, read and efficiently manage petabytes of data with the help of SQL. Hive is built on Hadoop to store and process massive datasets and uses a SQL-like interface that makes learning easier.