Hive still has really high query latency, since it starts MR jobs. So it's not really a replacement for what Drawn to Scale was trying to build. Impala certai

Hive still has really high query latency, since it starts MR jobs. So it's not really a replacement for what Drawn to Scale was trying to build. Impala certainly is, though. Impala has the additional advantage that your data does not need to be in HBase, but can be in any format in HDFS.