Apache Flink vs Apache Hive vs Apache Spark

Overview

Apache Hive

Stacks481

Followers475

Votes0

GitHub Stars5.9K

Forks4.8K

Apache Spark

Stacks3.0K

Followers3.5K

Votes140

GitHub Stars42.2K

Forks28.9K

Apache Flink

Stacks533

Followers879

Votes38

GitHub Stars25.4K

Forks13.7K

Detailed Comparison

Apache Hive	Apache Spark	Apache Flink
Hive facilitates reading, writing, and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage using SQL. Structure can be projected onto data already in storage.	Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.	Apache Flink is an open source system for fast and versatile data analytics in clusters. Flink supports batch and streaming analytics, in one system. Analytical programs can be written in concise and elegant APIs in Java and Scala.
Built on top of Apache Hadoop; Tools to enable easy access to data via SQL; Support for extract/transform/load (ETL), reporting, and data analysis; Access to files stored either directly in Apache HDFS and HBase; Query execution using Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Tez or Spark frameworks	Run programs up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory, or 10x faster on disk;Write applications quickly in Java, Scala or Python;Combine SQL, streaming, and complex analytics;Spark runs on Hadoop, Mesos, standalone, or in the cloud. It can access diverse data sources including HDFS, Cassandra, HBase, S3	Hybrid batch/streaming runtime that supports batch processing and data streaming programs.;Custom memory management to guarantee efficient, adaptive, and highly robust switching between in-memory and data processing out-of-core algorithms.;Flexible and expressive windowing semantics for data stream programs;Built-in program optimizer that chooses the proper runtime operations for each program;Custom type analysis and serialization stack for high performance
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.9K	GitHub Stars 42.2K	GitHub Stars 25.4K
GitHub Forks 4.8K	GitHub Forks 28.9K	GitHub Forks 13.7K
Stacks 481	Stacks 3.0K	Stacks 533
Followers 475	Followers 3.5K	Followers 879
Votes 0	Votes 140	Votes 38
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 61 Open-source 48 Fast and Flexible 8 One platform for every big data problem 8 Great for distributed SQL like applications 6 Easy to install and to use Cons 4 Speed	Pros 16 Unified batch and stream processing 8 Out-of-the box connector to kinesis,s3,hdfs 8 Easy to use streaming apis 4 Open Source 2 Low latency
Integrations
Hadoop HBase	No integrations available	YARN Hadoop Hadoop HBase Kafka

What are some alternatives to Apache Hive, Apache Spark, Apache Flink?

Presto

Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

lakeFS

It is an open-source data version control system for data lakes. It provides a “Git for data” platform enabling you to implement best practices from software engineering on your data lake, including branching and merging, CI/CD, and production-like dev/test environments.

Druid

Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store that is commonly used to power exploratory dashboards in multi-tenant environments. Druid excels as a data warehousing solution for fast aggregate queries on petabyte sized data sets. Druid supports a variety of flexible filters, exact calculations, approximate algorithms, and other useful calculations.

Apache Kylin

Apache Kylin™ is an open source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Hadoop/Spark supporting extremely large datasets, originally contributed from eBay Inc.

Splunk

It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

Apache Impala

Impala is a modern, open source, MPP SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop. Impala is shipped by Cloudera, MapR, and Amazon. With Impala, you can query data, whether stored in HDFS or Apache HBase – including SELECT, JOIN, and aggregate functions – in real time.

Vertica

It provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.

Azure Synapse

It is an analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. It brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.