In general, partitions in relational databases are used to increase the performance of the SQL queries. The partition is the concept of storing relevant data in the same place. For example, let us say you want to query the data monthly bases, then you can partition your data on month. In this article, we will check how to update or drop the Hive partition that you have already created. What are Partitions in Hive? Just like relational databases, Apache Hive partitions are used to improve the performance of the HiveQL…