How to perform update in hive? How to decode in hive? Performing incremental load in hadoop?

Creating view and index in hive ? How to write UDF in hive? Is Hive ETL or ELT ? Can we use hive as OLTP database ? Difference between external and internal tables? Is it possible to access hive tables ,if metastore is corrupted or crashed ? Where the metadata of the warehouse table is stored ? how many instances of metastore_db are created when you run the hive ? What is serde? How to handle complex data types like map,struct ,array and collection ? Is the hive table append able or updatable ? What is the advantage of partitioning in hive ? What is bucketing ? Can we use custom bucketing like custom partition in mapreduce ? How to handle date datatype in hive ?