Hive vs HBAse

Hive consists of five main components: a SQL-like grammar and parser, a

query planner, a query execution engine, a metadata repository, and a
columnar storage layout. Its primary focus is data warehouse-style analytical
workloads, so low latency retrieval of values by key is not necessary.
HBase has its own metadata repository and columnar storage layout. It is
possible to author HiveQL queries over HBase tables, allowing HBase to take
advantage of Hive's grammar and parser, query planner, and query
execution engine.