On Apr 5, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Sagar Naik wrote:

> 
> Correct me if I m wrong.
> Does this mean we need a traditional DB instance running for Hive to work ?


At a recent Hive user meeting, someone in the audience pointed out that HBase 
can now be used as a JDO datastore, so if you are incredibly brave, it's in 
theory possible at this point to get set up with

Hive->metastore->JDO->HBase

i.e. completely Hadoop-hosted for both data and metadata.  If anyone tries it, 
let us know how it goes.

JVS

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