+1. Putting my marketing hat on (I don¹t think marketeers is a four-letter word), touting Hive metastore as a sufficient metadata solution for other platforms such as MR and Pig, is nothing to be ashamed of.
- 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 3:56 PM, "Ashish Thusoo" <athu...@qubole.com> wrote: >We are certainly not marketeers and no one as far as I know is teeing up >for such a campaign. The intent here is certainly not to claim how great >HCatalog is or how great Hive is. The intent here is to see what is best >for the project and how great both are together. > >Ashish > > >On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 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!". >>
