Accessing SPD Engine Data using Hive

[UttamKumar]

With the release of SAS® 9.4 M3, you can access SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine (SPD Engine) data using Hive. SAS provides a custom Hive SerDe for reading SAS SPD Engine data stored on HDFS, enabling users to access the SPD Engine table from other applications.Read this blog posting for more information :

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2016/04/19/accessing-spd-engine-data-using-hive/

[LinusH]

Great "how to" article 

What I miss is th "why".

I can see the obvious benfit to share SPDE data to non SAS users via Hive.

But what are the benifits compared to store the data directly into Hive?

I would love a matrix with different storage options and the relevant capailities/constraints.