Why you should run Hive on Kubernetes, even in a Hadoop cluster
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Hive and Presto
Hive and Presto have developed a tortoise-and-hare story over the past 8 years. Initially conceived at Facebook and open sourced in August 2008, Hive was hailed as a breakthrough in the SQL-on-Hadoop technology and generally regarded as the de facto standard. Then in 2012, Facebook started to develop Presto as a replacement of Hive, which was considered too slow for their daily workload. As Facebook was specific about its goal in developing Presto, the future of Hive did not look so bright.