Hi everybody, An HCatalog integration with the Table API/SQL would be great and be helpful for many users!
A big +1 to that. Thank you, Fabian Shuyi Chen <suez1...@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 11. Apr. 2018, 14:36: > Thanks a lot, Rong and Peter. > > AFAIK, there is a flink hcatalog connector introduced in FLINK-1466 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1466> that is added by > Fabian. > And there is another JIRA in FLINK-1913 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1913> to document the use of > connector. > > I think we can start with looking at the existing hcatalog connector, > adding missing documentation, and come up with a proposal to evolve the > Flink HCatalog integration with ExternalCatalog, and the SQL client to make > it both useful both SQL and non-SQL scenarios. > > Given we already have the integration implemented in AthenaX > <https://github.com/uber/AthenaX> internally, we can help drive and > contribute back to the community. > > Shuyi > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Peter Huang <huangzhenqiu0...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Rong, > > > > It is a good point out. I aligned with Fabian yesterday. It is a good > work > > that I can involve > > to contribute back to Apache Flink after having AthenaX backfill support > > internally. > > > > > > Best Regards > > Peter Huang > > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Rong Rong <walter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I was wondering if it is a good idea to support some external catalog > > > software, such as Apache HCatalog[2], out-of-the-box for the FLIP-24 > > > SQL-Client[1]. There are many widely used catalogs that we can > > incorporate. > > > This way users won't have to always extend and create their own > > > ExternalCatalog.class separately and this could potentially make the > > > configuration part easier for SQL users. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Rong > > > > > > > > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP- > > 24+-+SQL+Client > > > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HCatalog > > > > > > > > > -- > "So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." >
