Hi all, I'd like to revive the discussion about the fate of Hive CLI, as this topic has haunted us several times including [1][2]. It looks to me that there is a consensus that it's not wise for Hive community to keep both Hive CLI as it is as well as Beeline + HS2. However, I don't believe that no action is the best action for us. From discussion so far, I see the following proposals:
1. Deprecating Hive CLI and advise that users use Beeline. 2. Make Hive CLI as naming flavor to beeline with embedded mode. Frankly, I don't see much difference between the two approaches. Keeping an alias at script or even code level isn't that much work. However, shouldn't we pick a direction and start moving to it? If there is any gaps between beeline embedded and Hive CLI, we should identify and fill in those. I'd love to hear the thoughts from the community and hope this time we will have concrete action items to work on. Thanks, Xuefu [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-dev/201412.mbox/%3C5485E1BE.3060709%40hortonworks.com%3E [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@hive.apache.org/msg112378.html
