HIVE-28059: Iceberg REST Catalog

[Henri Biestro (Apache)]

Hi Everyone;

There were some discussions about the Iceberg Catalog REST API recently. On
that subject, there is now a PR (5145
) as a proposal for such a
service that can live embedded within HMS.
For users having Hive deployed, making this service hosted by the HMS
process seems like an easy way to expose the feature. This reduces the
burden of having another service to deploy and maintain at the reduced cost
of starting a Jetty within HMS. Furthermore, since this is embedded, it
does not require being a thrift-client of HMS which may further reduce the
runtime footprint.
The code also easily allows starting it as a separate service reusing the
original thrift-client based implementation code. The initial code-base for
the service and servlet are boroughed from the Iceberg test classes.

Hopefully, this can be useful.
Thoughts ?
Cheers
Henri

Re: Retire https://apache.github.io sites

[Stamatis Zampetakis]

The work on HIVE-27953 is now completed so the github.io sites are
officially down and the obsolete content is removed from the various
repos.

Many thanks Simhadri for leading all these efforts in modernising the
Hive website and dealing with the legacy sites.

Best,
Stamatis

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 4:22 PM Simhadri G  wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> The revamped hive website has been hosted at https://hive.apache.org/  for
> more than a year now.
>
> As a result , we would like to retire and disable old Apache Hive website
> hosted via github pages in the following sites:
>
>- https://apache.github.io/hive/
>- https://apache.github.io/hive-site/
>
> The work for the same is tracked in
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-27953 .
>
> Kindly let us know if there are any questions regarding this.
>
> Thanks!
> Simhadri G