HBase has a different use case - it's for low-latency querying of big tables. If you combined it with Hive, you might have something nice for certain queries, but I wouldn't think of them as direct competitors.
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that Impala is rarely mentioned these days. I may be missing > something. However, I gather it is coming to end now as I don't recall many > use cases for it (or customers asking for it). In contrast, Hive has hold > its ground with the new addition of Spark and Tez as execution engines, > support for ACID and ORC and new stuff in Hive 2. In addition provided a > good choice for its metastore it scales well. > > If Hive had the ability (organic) to have local variable and stored > procedure support then it would be top notch Data Warehouse. Given its > metastore, I don't see any technical reason why it cannot support these > constructs. > > I was recently asked to comment on migration from commercial DWs to Big > Data (primarily for TCO reason) and really could not recall any better > candidate than Hive. Is HBase a viable alternative? Obviously whatever one > decides there is still HDFS, a good engine for Hive (sounds like many > prefer TEZ although I am a Spark fan) and the ubiquitous YARN. > > Let me know your thoughts. > > > Dr Mich Talebzadeh > > > > LinkedIn * > https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw > <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* > > > > http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com > > > -- Want to work at Handy? Check out our culture deck and open roles <http://www.handy.com/careers> Latest news <http://www.handy.com/press> at Handy Handy just raised $50m <http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/02/on-demand-home-service-handy-raises-50m-in-round-led-by-fidelity/> led by Fidelity
