-Why use the HT Hive extension? -select from and insert to Hypertable from Hive -currently HT doesn’t support types natively everything is a string, whereas Hive has an extensive type system -Hive allows you to do joins across multiple tables, some in HT, some in Hive or other sources -Keep fast changing data in HT and combine with other less frequently updated data sources -This is an initial working implementation , we have a fairly detailed roadmap of features we want to add going forward.