What are Acid tables in Hive?

[#1]

I was browsing through and found ACID tables in Hive. Could any one let me know what exactly it is and does it differs from the normal Hive tables?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

These are some decks to know acid transactions http://www.slideshare.net/Hadoop_Summit/hive-does-acid, hope it will help

[#3]

@Alex Raj be aware that ACID in Hive is still in tech preview and should not be used in production.

[#4]

Here is the detailed doc https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+Transactions