title: What are Hive Common Use Cases?
body: <p>I'm new to Hive; so, I'm not sure how companies use Hive.  Let me give you a scenario and see if I'm conceptually correct about the use of Hive.</p>
  
  <p>Let's say my company wants to keep some web server log files and be able to always search through and analyze the logs.  So, I create a table columns of which correspond to the columns in the log file.  Then I load the log file into the table.  Now, I can start query the data.  So, as the data comes in at future dates, I just keep adding the data to this table, and thus I always have my log files as a table in Hive that I can search through and analyze. </p>
  
  <p>Is that scenario above a common use? And if it is, then how do I keep adding new log files to the table? Do I have to keep adding them to the table manually each day?</p>