title: How does Hive compare to HBase?
body: <p>I'm interested in finding out how the recently-released (<a href="http://mirror.facebook.com/facebook/hive/hadoop-0.17/" rel="noreferrer">http://mirror.facebook.com/facebook/hive/hadoop-0.17/</a>) Hive compares to HBase in terms of performance. The SQL-like interface used by Hive is very much preferable to the HBase API we have implemented.</p>