Welcome to Hive!
I'm HIVE friends with your wife and she told me you had joined Hive recently. Welcome!
When she told me what your username was I was like, hmmm.... isn't that the database? Seems my memory hasn't completely failed me yet! !lolz
Would love to hear more about your plans for a HIVE database. I'm a HIVE dev wanna-be (I'm the owner of The LOLZ project) and creator of 
RE: Speeding up PostgreSQL data loading