apache/hive
Apache Hive observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6314
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
6015 stars · 4794 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Apache Hive is a distributed, fault-tolerant data warehouse system that enables reading, writing, and managing petabytes of data in distributed storage using SQL. Built on Hadoop with Tez-based query execution, it includes the Hive Metastore as a central metadata repository and supports Iceberg tables, UDFs, and cloud object storage.
Use cases
- run SQL analytics over petabytes of data in HDFS or S3
- set up a central metadata catalog for a data lake
- perform ETL and reporting on large distributed datasets
- query Iceberg tables with a SQL engine
- extend SQL with custom user-defined functions
- provide a metastore for Spark, Presto, or Trino
When to choose
- you need SQL analytics at massive scale over distributed storage
- you want a battle-tested, enterprise-proven data warehouse with Kerberos security
- you need a central metastore shared across multiple query engines
- your workloads are OLAP/batch, not transactional
When to avoid
- you need online transaction processing (OLTP) with low-latency writes
- your datasets are small enough for a single-node database like PostgreSQL
- you want a lightweight embedded analytics engine without Hadoop ecosystem dependencies
Facets
application · maturity active
database etl search-engine analytics big-data databases analytics jvm cloud data-warehouse sql hadoop hive-metastore tez iceberg distributed-sql olap data-engineering docker linux
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/apache/hive · fetched 2026-08-28 · 338890c780e0
- homepage: https://hive.apache.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 77a361e38d65
- site_page: https://hive.apache.org//docs/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · c15409322f88
- site_page: https://hive.apache.org//docs/javadocs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b683019284f
- site_page: https://hive.apache.org/docs/latest/language/languagemanual · fetched 2026-08-29 · ff781287ac99
- site_page: https://hive.apache.org//development/quickstart · fetched 2026-08-29 · cfe506a40198
- site_page: https://hive.apache.org//development/designdocs · fetched 2026-08-29 · f2a4cb979332
- site_page: https://hive.apache.org//general/downloads · fetched 2026-08-29 · f84052f18afc
- site_page: https://hive.apache.org/community/resources/hivedeveloperfaq · fetched 2026-08-29 · c89985c3e4e4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| apache/hive | main | 77 |
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