Apache Hive vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Hive
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Apache Hive is database/data warehouse software that supports data querying and analysis of large datasets stored in the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and other compatible systems, and is distributed under an open source license.N/A
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.
$1,500
per year (5 users)
Pricing
Apache HiveThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apache HiveThoughtSpot
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Apache HiveThoughtSpot
Features
Apache HiveThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hive
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.3
89 Ratings
12% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.289 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hive
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.5
91 Ratings
7% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.590 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.290 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.749 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.688 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hive
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
8.3
84 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.355 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.678 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.464 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.135 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hive
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.4
86 Ratings
8% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.685 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.679 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.565 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hive
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
8.1
86 Ratings
5% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.382 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.878 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hive
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.5
53 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.351 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.134 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.046 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hive
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.1
51 Ratings
9% below category average
REST API00 Ratings6.942 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.535 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.335 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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Apache HiveThoughtSpot
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Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
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User Ratings
Apache HiveThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(35 ratings)
8.6
(91 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(7 ratings)
8.3
(85 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apache HiveThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache
Software work execution is on a large scale, it is good to use for new projects or organizational changes, data lineage mapping has always been dubious but this one has had good results. You can store and synchronize data from different departments, the storage process can be manual but it is best automated.
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ThoughtSpot
It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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Pros
Apache
  • Apache Hive allows use to write expressive solutions to complex problems thanks to its SQL-like syntax.
  • Relatively easy to set up and start using.
  • Very little ramp-up to start using the actual product, documentation is very thorough, there is an active community, and the code base is constantly being improved.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
  • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
  • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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Cons
Apache
  • Some queries, particularly complex joins, are still quite slow and can take hours
  • Previous jobs and queries are not stored sometimes
  • Switching to Impala can sometimes be time-consuming (i.e. the system hangs, or is slow to respond).
  • Sometimes, directories and tables don't load properly which causes confusion
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ThoughtSpot
  • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
  • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apache
Since I do not know the second data warehouse solution that integrate with HDFS as well as Hive.
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ThoughtSpot
I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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Usability
Apache
Hive is a very good big data analysis and ad-hoc query platform, which supports scaling also. The BI processes can be easily integrated with Hadoop via the Hive. It can deal with a much larger data set that traditional RDBMS can not. It is a "must-have" component of the big data domain.
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ThoughtSpot
The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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Reliability and Availability
Apache
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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Performance
Apache
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
Apache
Apache Hive is a FOSS project and its open source. We need not definitely comment on anything about the support of open source and its developer community. But, it has got tremendous developer support, awesome documentation. I would justify the fact that much support can be gathered from the community backup.
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ThoughtSpot
I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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In-Person Training
Apache
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
Apache
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
Apache
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
Apache
Besides Hive, I have used Google BigQuery, which is costly but have very high computation speed. Amazon Redshift is the another product, I used in my recent organisation. Both Redshift and BigQuery are managed solution whereas Hive needs to be managed
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ThoughtSpot
We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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Scalability
Apache
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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Return on Investment
Apache
  • Apache hive is secured and scalable solution that helps in increasing the overall organization productivity.
  • Apache hive can handle and process large amount of data in a sufficient time manner.
  • It simplifies writing SQL queries, hence helping the organization as most companies use SQL for all query jobs.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
  • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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ScreenShots

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

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