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Thanks to Carter Shanklin & Nita Dembla from Hortonworks for valuable post. One of the most exciting new features of HDP 2.6 from Hortonworks was the general availability of Apache Hive with LLAP. If you missed DataWorks Summit you’ll want to look at some of the great LLAP experiences our users shared, including Geisinger who found that  Hive LLAP outperforms their traditional EDW  for most of their queries, and Comcast who found  Hive LLAP is faster than Presto for 75% of benchmark queries . These great results are thanks to performance and stability improvements Hortonworks made to Hive LLAP resulting in 3x faster interactive query in HDP 2.6. This blog dives into the reasons HDP 2.6 is so much faster. We’ll also take a look at the massive step forward Hive has made in SQL compliance with HDP 2.6, enabling Hive to run all 99 TPC-DS queries with only trivial modifications to the original source queries. STARTING OFF: 3X PERFORMANCE GAINS IN HDP 2.6 WITH HIVE ...