Apache Hadoop vs. Apache Hive

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hadoop
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Hadoop is an open source software from Apache, supporting distributed processing and data storage. Hadoop is popular for its scalability, reliability, and functionality available across commoditized hardware.N/A
Apache Hive
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Apache Hive is database/data warehouse software that supports data querying and analysis of large datasets stored in the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and other compatible systems, and is distributed under an open source license.N/A
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Hadoop
Chose Hadoop
It’s open source nature
it’s community support
its being configurable
Chose Hadoop
Different departments of my organization have been getting the benefit from Apache Hadoop as it serves the purpose of saving lives when large amounts of data is unable to be converted and processed in a timely manner from a node or a simple computer. Hadoop also has an easier …
Chose Hadoop
I feel that this is a highly reliable and scalable solution computing technology that is highly capable of processing large data sets across multiple servers and thousands of machines in a well-defined and distributed manner. Apache Hadoop can automatically scale up the number …
Chose Hadoop
Spark is a good alternative to Hadoop that can have faster querying and processing performance and can offer more flexibility in terms of applications that it can support.

Google Bigquery has also been a great alternative and is especially great in terms of ease of use. The …
Chose Hadoop
MariaDB - Better to be already in the cloud you will use it for. Issues have improved as it has matured over the year.s
CockroachDB - Not nearly as performant (even out of the box) as Apache Hadoop. More configurations required just to make it work. In memory cacheing is an issue.
Chose Hadoop
Hadoop utilizes a SQL structure, which is great. You pay less for the services, but it's definitely less of an enterprise-level option and more just a good place to store your seldom-used data. Teradata and AWS are a lot faster in returning queries than Hadoop, but you pay …
Chose Hadoop
Hands down, Hadoop is less expensive than the other platforms we considered. Cloudera was easier to set up but the expense ruled it out. MS-SQL didn't have the performance we saw with the Hadoop clusters and was more expensive. We considered MS-SQL mainly for its ability …
Chose Hadoop
When comparing to the sophistication of IBM GPFS (Spectrum Scale) to Hadoop, it is clear that Spectrum Scale is a much better choice. That is maybe something you don't want to hear, but in all of our research, this has been the final decision of the client.
Chose Hadoop
Apache Spark can be considered as an alternative because of its similar capabilities around processing and storing big data. The reason we went with Hadoop was the literature available online and integration capability with platforms like R Studio. The popularity of Hadoop has …
Chose Hadoop
  • For real-time streaming, use Spark; can provide a stark contrast to the way MR works
  • Hadoop offers a scalable, cost-effective and highly available solution for big data storage and processing.
  • Amazon Redshift is somewhat closer to Hadoop. But to analyze Petabytes of data Hadoop …
Chose Hadoop
Hadoop offers a scalable, cost-effective and highly available solution for big data storage and processing. The use of a non-proprietary physical layer greatly reduces dependency on technology. It also offers elastic dimensioning capability when deployed on virtual machines or …
Chose Hadoop
I haven't worked with other Big Data aggregation services like Hadoop. As far as I know, Hadoop is the leading choice in this field with good cause. There is a lot of community support, custom modules, paid consultants, free and paid training. All this makes it an ideal choice …
Chose Hadoop
No SQL database were evaluated along with MPP platform. Hadoop performs very well compared to the other platforms. Also since lot of investment goes into Hadoop there is a good chance of getting what one needs from the developer community.
Chose Hadoop
Amazon Redshift is some what closer to Hadoop. But to analyze Petabytes of data Hadoop as better performance.
Chose Hadoop
As I am new to the hadoop ecosystem I have not used or evaluated any other similar products at this time. This was handed to me from a previous much older installation that was very under utilized. Our new platform will be working the new cluster much harder with jobs that run …
Chose Hadoop
Hadoop was a cheaper alternative to Amazon. Since I had to pay for every minute I use with Amazon, I had to make sure multiple times that the code was good enough before I purchased with Amazon. But since Hadoop was available on the cluster, I had the opportunity to code on the …
Chose Hadoop
Hadoop being open source, is cheaper to use and do POCs for clients. Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR also compete to contribute to open source Hadoop and keep their product conceptually similar to Hadoop.
Chose Hadoop
Apache Spark has an in memory processing model, making it powerful for lightning fast data processing. Apache Spark also exposes Scala and Python in APIs which is one of the most commonly used programming languages in data analytic and data processing domains.
Chose Hadoop
Not used any other product than Hadoop and I don't think our company will switch to any other product, as Hadoop is providing excellent results. Our company is growing rapidly, Hadoop helps to keep up our performance and meet customer expectations. We also use HDFS which …
Chose Hadoop
Hadoop provides storage for large data sets and a powerful processing model to crunch and transform huge amounts of data. It does not assume the underlying hardware or infrastructure and enables the users to build data processing infrastructure from commodity hardware. All the …
Chose Hadoop
Processing of big data has been the ultimate need for the me choosing Hadoop. Big data is massive and messy, and it’s coming at you uncontrolled. Data are gathered to be analyzed to discover patterns and correlations that could not be initially apparent, but might be useful in …
Chose Hadoop
Hadoop solves lot of problems (involving unstructured data and huge volumes of data ) better than traditional database systems . And it is completely free and open source ( so lots of cost savings ). Data analysis is very fast when compared to old systems, resulting in more …
Apache Hive
Chose Apache Hive
To query a huge, distributed dataset, Apache Hive was built by Facebook. Unlike Apache Hive, Apache Spark is an in-memory computation engine, which is why it is significantly quicker than Apache Hive at querying large amounts of data. In contrast to Apache HBase, Apache Hive is …
Chose Apache Hive
Apache hive gave more flexible than MS SQL server. ElasticSearch was little complex. GoogleBigQuery cost more.
Chose Apache Hive
Community support and ease of use -not deployment.

It enables querying and analyzing large amounts of data stored in HDFS, on the petabyte scale. It has a query language called HQL that transforms SQL queries into MapReduce jobs that run on Hadoop, and it is wonderful for the …
Chose Apache Hive
Apache Spark is similar in the sense that it too can be used to query and process large amounts of data through its Dataframe interface. Hive is better for short-term querying while Spark is better for persistent and long-term analysis. Another product is Impala. For our …
Chose Apache Hive
We have used a simple but necessary function such as merging certain data tables, which although they may be from different areas, complement each other or are necessary, you can use metadata if what you need is to validate the origin of your information and what impact it has, …
Chose Apache Hive
Apache Hadoop is built on top of the Hadoop File system so it gives its best when integrated with Hadoop. Data analysis and query optimization become very easy when used with Hadoop to perform Extract transform load operations. As Hadoop is a big data system and handles large …
Chose Apache Hive
We have used the system to migrate data either for new versions or because we will use another operating program, the software helps us to synchronize programs between different operating systems, a history of information can be kept constant, it can be sent to third parties …
Chose Apache Hive
Queries are easy to write and interface is similar to SQL so learning overhead is reduced. Multi user and data type support is provided. Can be easily scaled for very large amount of analytics. It is very flexible in terms of using file formats.
Chose Apache Hive
Snowflake, Splunk Cloud, Talend Open Studio, Azure Data Factory and Apache Spark
Chose Apache Hive
Due to effective queries resolved time and the performance and user-friendly framework compared to other products.
Chose Apache Hive
Apache Hive is a query language developed by Facebook to query over a large distributed dataset. Apache is a query engine that runs on top of HDFS, so it utilizes the resources of HDFS Hadoop setup, while Apache Spark is an in memory compute engine, and that's why [it is] much …
Chose Apache Hive
Besides Hive, I have used Google BigQuery, which is costly but have very high computation speed.
Amazon Redshift is the another product, I used in my recent organisation.
Both Redshift and BigQuery are managed solution whereas Hive needs to be managed
Chose Apache Hive
Hive and Spark have the same parent company hence they share a lot of common features. Hive follows SQL syntax while Spark has support for RDD, DataFrame API. DataFrame API supports both SQL syntax and has custom functions to perform the same functionality. Spark is faster and …
Chose Apache Hive
Apache Hive decouples the query layer from the storage layer, it is more flexible and expandable.
Chose Apache Hive
One of the major advantages of using Presto or the main reason why people use Presto (Teradata) is due to that fact it can support multiple data sources - which is lacking as in the case of Apache Hive. But still, most people who come from a Structured data-based background …
Chose Apache Hive
Easy to understand, well supported by the community, good documentation. However, it is possible that SAP Business Warehouse could be a good fit, too, even maybe better. I did not have the chance to try it though. We selected Apache Hive because it was far less expensive and …
Chose Apache Hive
I considered Hive because it is the best suited option when it comes to larger data access. Besides, learning HiveQL is comparatively easy.
Chose Apache Hive
I have used Storm for real-time processing, but that only addresses a few data points. But for a larger access to data, Hive is well suited.
Chose Apache Hive
[We selected Apache Hive because] It's from apache and opensource. So it's free.
Chose Apache Hive
  • Faster response time and also can handle complex analytical queries
  • Can able to write custom function using python and hive
  • Able to connect using hadoop components and also using R
Chose Apache Hive

For storing bulk amount of data in a tabular manner, and where there's no need need of primary key, or just in case, if redundant data is received, it will not cause a problem. For small amounts of data, it does run MR, so beware. If your intention is to use it as a …

Chose Apache Hive
I wasn't part of the evaluation process for Apache Hive. This was already implemented when I joined the company. I have worked with other big data plaftforms and I personally thinks most of them are quite comporable to one another. It really depends on what the company is going …
Chose Apache Hive
Hive is SQL compliant which makes it easy for the data folks compared to Pig
Chose Apache Hive
Apache Pig is probably the most direct technology to compare to Hive and has several different use cases to Hive. If you want to simplify processing tasks that run using MapReduce then Apache Pig may be a better tool for the job. However if you are going to be running many …
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudera Manager
Cloudera Manager
Score 9.9 out of 10
Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Analytics Engine
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 7.1 out of 10
Oracle Exadata
Oracle Exadata
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Usability
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Performance
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Online Training
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Apache Hadoop (and its subsequent add-ons) are well-suited to larger, unstructured data flows, such as aggregation of web traffic or advertising. Geospatial algorithms and their outputs are well-suited for this kind of aggregation as structuring that data is challenging, but leaving it unstructured and performing queries as-needed is a better fit for most business models. With the advent of data science, I would expect Hadoop fits a LOT of their initial outputs quite well.
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Apache Hive shines for ad-hoc analysis and plugging into BI tools. Its SQL-like syntax allows for ease of use not for only for engineers but also for data analysts. Through our experience, there are probably more desirable tools to use if you are planning on integrating Hive into your processing pipeline.
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Pros
  • HDFS is reliable and solid, and in my experience with it, there are very few problems using it
  • Enterprise support from different vendors makes it easier to 'sell' inside an enterprise
  • It provides High Scalability and Redundancy
  • Horizontal scaling and distributed architecture
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  • Hive syntax is almost like SQL, so for someone already familiar with SQL it takes almost no effort to pick up Hive.
  • To be able to run map reduce jobs using json parsing and generate dynamic partitions in parquet file format.
  • Simplifies your experience with Hadoop especially for non-technical/coding partners.
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Cons
  • Hadoop is a batch oriented processing framework, it lacks real time or stream processing.
  • Hadoop's HDFS file system is not a POSIX compliant file system and does not work well with small files, especially smaller than the default block size.
  • Hadoop cannot be used for running interactive jobs or analytics.
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  • Use Hive for analytical work loads. Write once and read many scenarios. Do not prefer updates and deletes.
  • Behind scenes Hive creates map reduce jobs. Hive performance is slow compared to Apache Spark.
  • Map reduce writes the intermediate outputs to dial whereas Spark operates in in-memory and uses DAG.
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Likelihood to Renew
Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free
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Since I do not know the second data warehouse solution that integrate with HDFS as well as Hive.
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Usability
Great! Hadoop has an easy to use interface that mimics most other data warehouses. You can access your data via SQL and have it display in a terminal before exporting it to your business intelligence platform of choice. Of course, for smaller data sets, you can also export it to Microsoft Excel.
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Hive is a very good big data analysis and ad-hoc query platform, which supports scaling also. The BI processes can be easily integrated with Hadoop via the Hive. It can deal with a much larger data set that traditional RDBMS can not. It is a "must-have" component of the big data domain.
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Support Rating
We went with a third party for support, i.e., consultant. Had we gone with Azure or Cloudera, we would have obtained support directly from the vendor. my rating is more on the third party we selected and doesn't reflect the overall support available for Hadoop. I think we could have done better in our selection process, however, we were trying to use an already approved vendor within our organization. There is plenty of self-help available for Hadoop online.
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Apache Hive is a FOSS project and its open source. We need not definitely comment on anything about the support of open source and its developer community. But, it has got tremendous developer support, awesome documentation. I would justify the fact that much support can be gathered from the community backup.
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Online Training
Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.
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I feel that this is a highly reliable and scalable solution computing technology that is highly capable of processing large data sets across multiple servers and thousands of machines in a well-defined and distributed manner. Apache Hadoop can automatically scale up the number of servers and machines that are needed to process, store, and analyze data sets. It also handles explosions in data with big data technology. Apache Hadoop is good at handling all node failures as well.
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We have used a simple but necessary function such as merging certain data tables, which although they may be from different areas, complement each other or are necessary, you can use metadata if what you need is to validate the origin of your information and what impact it has, is also feasible.
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Return on Investment
  • As it was open source makes it popular choice for handling large chuck of datasets
  • It was free earlier but now it’s licensed but still enterprise is a fine tuned version which makes it easier for new users and administrators to use it
  • Our investment is worth every single penny.
  • Initial cost is more as you might need to hire administrators to setup the cluster and make them in scalable. But once done it’s pretty easy
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  • Good ROI for being able to access data easily across the network, we have large amounts of data and this is a good system to access it
  • Good ROI for being easy to learn how to use for new employees, not much time spent which saves costs
  • Good ROI for being able to integrate with Spark and other applications, hence data can be analyzed through programs
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