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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?page=5&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-29+11%3A52%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8b8d06cb-1dc5-4640-b90d-dd784049a26b&secure%5Btoken%5D=f98964dc7a1d3763cc0f91556a651b70044258e4cbd9140c0ba02811f379cdc9&format=llm_user)

## Hive Features
**Data Management**
- Data Integration
- Data Compression
- Data Quality
- Built-In Data Analytics
- In-Database Machine Learning
- Data Lake Analytics

**Integration**
- BI Tool Integration

**Deployment**
- On-Premise
- Cloud

**Performance **
- Scalability

**Security**
- Data Governance
- Data Security

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

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