Apache Hive provides a means of running MapReduce job through an SQL-like scripting language, called HiveQL. HiveQL statements ...

Apache Hive provides a means of running MapReduce job through an SQL-like scripting language, called HiveQL. HiveQL statements are compiled into a MapReduce job that takes about one minute to finish.The output can be displayed on the Windows Azure PowerShell console window or be redirected to a file on your workstation. You can also run the job asynchronously using the Start-AzureHDInsightJob cmdlet.