Hive 0.13.0-1602 Release Notes

Below are release notes for the Hive component included in the MapR Converged Data Platform.

Version 0.13
Release Date March 4, 2016
MapR Version Interoperability

See Hive and HCatalog Support Matrix and Ecosystem Support Matrix (Pre-5.2 releases).

Source on GitHub

https://github.com/mapr/hive/tree/0.13.0-mapr-1602

Maven Artifacts

https://repository.mapr.com/maven/

Package Names The following packages are associated with this release:
  • mapr-hive-0.13.201603021517-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hive_0.13.201603021517_all.deb
  • mapr-hivemetastore-0.13.201603021517-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivemetastore_0.13.201603021517_all.deb
  • mapr-hiveserver2-0.13.201603021517-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hiveserver2_0.13.201603021517_all.deb
  • mapr-hivewebhcat-0.13.201603021517-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivewebhcat_0.13.201603021517_all.deb

Feature Support

MapR does not support Hive on Spark. Therefore, you cannot use Spark as an execution engine for Hive. However, you can run Hive and Spark on the same cluster. You can also use Spark SQL and Drill to query Hive tables.

Fixes

This release by MapR includes the following fixes on the base Apache release. For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.

GitHub Commit Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
d6cf120115 2016-02-11 MAPR-22560/HIVE-10021: "Alter index rebuild" statements no longer fail when HiveServer2 uses Sentry authorization.
6f17d2836 2016-02-09 MAPR-22435: beeline.sh no longer includes an unnecessary "if" statement.