Hive 1.0-1611 Release Notes

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

Version 1.0
Release Date December 8, 2016
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/hive/tree/1.0.0-mapr-1611
MapR Version Compatibility See Hive and HCatalog Support Matrix and Ecosystem Support Matrix (Pre-5.2 releases)
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names
  • mapr-hive-1.0.201612011449-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hive_1.0.201612011449_all.deb
  • mapr-hivemetastore-1.0.201612011449-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivemetastore_1.0.201612011449_all.deb
  • mapr-hiveserver2-1.0.201612011449-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hiveserver2_1.0.201612011449_all.deb
  • mapr-hivewebhcat-1.0.201612011449-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivewebhcat_1.0.201612011449_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.

Commit Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
e8300c35 2016-10-05 MAPR-24696: The issue that caused Hive partition directory URI to be double-encoded is now fixed.
98957a05 2016-10-04 MAPR-24425: The issue that caused msck repair command on partitioned table to return "Partitions not in metastore" error is now fixed.
e54cf84fc 2016-09-09 MAPR-24508: The insert overwrite command will now remove old data files before it overwrites the table.
462ce1b5 2016-08-26 MAPR-24380: When the load data local inpath <path_to_file> overwrite into <table> command is run, Hive will now process each file separately instead of copying entire folder with files in it.