Hive on MR3 on Kubernetes exploits all the key features available in MR3 such as:

• Fault tolerance
• Autoscaling
• MR3 shuffle handler
• Speculative execution
• Eliminating Fetch Delays

High availability is achieved by exploiting StatefulSet and ReplicationController objects of Kubernetes. This section describes new features in Hive on MR3 on Kubernetes. We assume some familiarity with Hive in general.