I am really looking forward to the headline that "Hive Metastore now provides metadata for platforms other than Hive".
I think that would demonstrate the flexibility of Hive metastore to the world. Even if some people consider this a purely "marketing message", the flexibility of the APIs do appeal to developers. Right ? - milind --- Milind Bhandarkar Chief Scientist, Machine Learning Platforms, Greenplum, A Division of EMC +1-650-523-3858 (W) +1-408-666-8483 (C) On 12/20/12 2:02 PM, "Carl Steinbach" <c...@apache.org> wrote: >> Would the project not benefit in the long run if Hcat is >> brought in and some day becomes the default metastore for Hive. > > >Folks, can we please try to keep this straight? HCatalog on its own does >not provide any support for metadata. It is a set of wrapper APIs that >make >Hive's metastore and serdes accessible to Pig and MR. I think these >wrappers provide a lot of value, and I'm eager to see them merged into >Hive, but I'm dreading the marketing campaign that I suspect will follow: >"Hive now supports metadata thanks to HCatalog!".
