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# Hive Reviews
**Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation  
**Category:** [Data Warehouse Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-warehouse)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 60
## About Hive
Hive provides a mechanism to project structure onto this data and query the data using a SQL-like language called HiveQL. At the same time this language also allows traditional map/reduce programmers to plug in their custom mappers and reducers when it is inconvenient or inefficient to express this logic in HiveQL.





## Hive Discussions
  - [What is Hive workflow?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-hive-workflow)
  - [What is the Hive platform?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-hive-platform)
  - [How do I use Hive software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-use-hive-software)
  - [What does hive software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-hive-software-do)
  - [How does this compare to other SQL-like languages?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-this-compare-to-other-sql-like-languages) - 1 upvote

- [View Hive pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/hive/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=1077911&qs=pros-and-cons&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-14+20%3A09%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4cc156fd-6cde-4ef2-b69c-efb8dba6db7e&secure%5Btoken%5D=90f41cd6f548cc3288af0541ab5932fa2530dabf5d1cbdf60db7b11bfc60bb60&format=llm_user)

## Hive Features
**Data Management**
- Data Integration
- Data Compression
- Data Quality
- Built-In Data Analytics
- In-Database Machine Learning
- Data Lake Analytics
- ETL - Extract Transfer Load
- Data Capture and Transfer
- Real-Time Analytics
- Reporting/Analytics

**Integration**
- BI Tool Integration

**Deployment**
- On-Premise
- Cloud

**Performance **
- Scalability

**Security**
- Data Governance
- Data Security

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization
- Generative AI

**Additional Functionality**
- Parallel Processing
- Ad hoc Analysis
- Multiple Data Sources
- API
- In-Database Processing
- Monitoring
- Real-Time Reporting
- Data Synchronization
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Data Connectors
- Performance Metrics
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Alerts/Notifications
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Drag & Drop
- Data Visualization
- Data Import/Export
- Match & Merge
- Data Transformation
- Secure Data Storage
- Data Extraction
- AI Copilot
- Customizable Reports
- Activity Dashboard
- Data Migration
- In-Memory Processing
- Data Mapping

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