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Today, Facebook counts 29% of its employees (and growing!) as Hive users. More than half (51%) of those users are outside of Engineering. They come from distinct groups like User Operations, Sales, Human Resources, and Finance. Many of them had never used a database before working here. Thanks to Hive, they are now all data ninjas who are able to move fast and make great decisions with data.

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10 comments

  1. And our Hive cluster processes over 7,500 jobs which scan over 135TB of compressed data per day.

    David Recordon - 30th November 2009 11:57 - #

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