Apache Hive: Data Warehouse Software for Reading, Writing, and Managing Large Datasets. Hive facilitates reading, writing, and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage using SQL. Structure can be projected onto data already in storage; AWS Glue:Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service. A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.
Apache Hive and AWS Glue can be primarily classified as "Big Data" tools.
Some of the features offered by Apache Hive are:
- 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