Why should it not be ok if you do not miss any functionality? You can use oozie + hive queries to have more sophisticated logging and scheduling. Do not forget to do proper capacity/queue management.
> On 16 Feb 2016, at 07:19, Ramasubramanian > <ramasubramanian.naraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it ok to build an entire ETL/ELT data flow using HIVE queries? > > Data is stored in HIVE. We have transactional and reference data. We need to > build a small warehouse. > > Need suggestion on alternatives too. > > Regards, > Rams