These books describe Apache Hive and explain how to use its features. If you know of others that should be listed here, or newer editions, please send a message to the Hive user mailing list or add the information yourself if you have wiki edit privileges. Most links go to the publishers although you can also buy most of these books from bookstores, either online or brick-and-mortar.
- Programming Hive by Edward Capriolo, Dean Wampler, and Jason Rutherglen – O'Reilly Media, 2012
- Apache Hive Essentials by Dayong Du – Packt Publishing, 2015 and 2018 (second edition)
- Apache Hive Cookbook by Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, and Shrey Mehrotra – Packt Publishing, 2016
- Instant Apache Hive Essentials How-to by Darren Lee – Packt Publishing, 2013
- Practical Hive by Scott Shaw, Andreas François Vermeulen, Ankur Gupta, and David Kjerrumgaard – Apress, 2016
- The Ultimate Guide to Programming Apache Hive by Fru Nde – NextGen Publishing, 2015
- Learn Hive in 1 Day by Krishna Rungta – independently published, 2017
Books primarily about Hadoop, with some coverage of Hive:
- Hadoop: The Definitive Guide by Tom White (one chapter on Hive) – O'Reilly Media, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2015 (fourth edition)
- Hadoop in Action by Chuck Lam (one chapter on Hive) – Manning Publications, 2010
- Hadoop in Practice by Alex Holmes (one chapter on Hive) – Manning Publications, 2012
Online book:
- The Free Hive Book by Christian Prokopp – GitHub (work in progress, 2013-2014)