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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-1293:
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@Edward, I agree that the main reason we are tilting towards zookeeper is its 
ability to do auto-cleanup which is very useful.
I can add a interface, and there can be 2 implementations: one with zookeeper 
and other with metastore.
I will try to address the other suggestion about: 'show locks' and 'clear 
locks' - it will be very useful for debugging.
But, if I am stuck, I will do it in a follow-up jira

> Concurreny Model for Hive
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1293
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1293
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Namit Jain
>            Assignee: Namit Jain
>
> Concurrency model for Hive:
> Currently, hive does not provide a good concurrency model. The only 
> guanrantee provided in case of concurrent readers and writers is that
> reader will not see partial data from the old version (before the write) and 
> partial data from the new version (after the write).
> This has come across as a big problem, specially for background processes 
> performing maintenance operations.
> The following possible solutions come to mind.
> 1. Locks: Acquire read/write locks - they can be acquired at the beginning of 
> the query or the write locks can be delayed till move
> task (when the directory is actually moved). Care needs to be taken for 
> deadlocks.
> 2. Versioning: The writer can create a new version if the current version is 
> being read. Note that, it is not equivalent to snapshots,
> the old version can only be accessed by the current readers, and will be 
> deleted when all of them have finished.
> Comments.

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