How to read from Hive without map reduce? I am trying to read a column from a table created on Hive, but I don't want the overhead that exist from map reduce. Basicaly I want to retrive the values from a table created on Hive without overhead and get them the fastest way possible.
Instead of MapReduce, you can use Tez or Spark as you execution engine in Hive.
See hive.execution.engine in Hive Configuration Properties.
There are also quite a few SQL engines compatible with the hive metadata e.g Presto, Spark SQL, Impala.