Hive on MR3 on Kubernetes inherits most of the features available in Hive on MR3 on Hadoop such as:

• Fault tolerance
• Autoscaling
• HiveServer2 in shared session mode and in individual session mode
• LLAP I/O
• Elastic allocation of cluster resources (namely Pods)
• ContainerGroup schemes: per-vertex, per-map-reduce, all-in-one
• Auto Parallelism
• Compaction

High availability is achieved by exploiting StatefulSet and ReplicationController objects of Kubernetes. Additional features specific to Kubernetes, such as dynamic work rebalancing, are also under development.