The Apache Hive team is proud to announce the release of Apache Hive version 4.0.0-beta-1.
The Apache Hive (TM) data warehouse software facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. Built on top of Apache Hadoop (TM), it provides, among others: * Tools to enable easy data extract/transform/load (ETL) * A mechanism to impose structure on a variety of data formats * Access to files stored either directly in Apache HDFS (TM) or in other data storage systems such as Apache HBase (TM) * Query execution via Apache Tez Frameworks. For Hive release details and downloads, please visit: https://hive.apache.org/downloads.html Hive 4.0.0-beta-1 Release Notes are available here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12353351&styleName=Text&projectId=12310843 We would like to thank the many contributors who made this release possible. Regards, The Apache Hive Team