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tolerance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Apache does not generations runtime code<br \/>\nfor \u201cbig loops \u201d using llvm.<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Impala does generations runtime code<br \/>\nfor \u201cbig loops \u201d using llvm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Hadoop 2.7.3<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Hadoop 2.6.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">All queries run through LLAP<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Runtime Filtering Optimization Enabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">ORCFile format with zlib compression<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Parquet format with snappy compression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Every hive query has this problem of \u201ccold start\u201d.<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Impala avoids startup overhead as daemon<br \/>\nprocesses are started at boot time itself,<br \/>\nalways being ready to processes a query.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Apache\u00a0<b>Hive<\/b>\u00a0might not be ideal for interactive computing<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Impala is meant for interactive computing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\"><b>Hive<\/b>\u00a0is batch based Hadoop MapReduce.<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Impala is more like MPP database.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\"><b>Hive<\/b>\u00a0supports complex types.<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\"><b>Impala<\/b>\u00a0does not support complex types.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Apache Hive is fault tolerant.<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">Impala does not support fault tolerance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">It is more universal, versatile and pluggable language.<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-leftalign\">It is used unleash its brute processing power<br \/>\nand give lightning fast analytic 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