To add to the point of @ggangadharan, there are lots of good articles/posts why the float and even the double datatype has these problems. Note that this is not Hive / Hadoop or Java specific. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-double-or-float-to-represent-currency https://dzone.com/articles/never-use-float-and-double-for-monetary-calculatio  https://www.red-gate.com/hub/product-learning/sql-prompt/the-dangers-of-using-float-or-real-datatypes   Miklos ... View more