Hive roadmap
As it is the end of this chapter as well as of this book, the highlight of each Hive release milestone and future features expected are summarized as follows along with best wishes to the Hive communities for growing bigger and better in the near future:
- December 2011 – Hive 0.8.0
- Added
Bitmap
indexes - Added the
TIMESTAMP
data type - Added the Hive Plugin Developer Kit to make plugin building and testing easier
- Improved JDBC Driver and bug fixes
- Added
- April 2012 – Hive 0.9.0
- Added the
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW
statement - Added
NOT IN
andNOT LIKE
support - Added the
BETWEEN
andNULL
safe equality operator - Added
printf()
,sort_array()
, andconcat_ws()
functions - Added a filter push-down from Hive into HBase for the key column
- Combined multiple
UNION ALL
statements ...
- Added the
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