The Apache Hive team is proud to announce the release of Hive 0.6.0! Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy summarization, ad-hoc querying, and analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop compatible file systems. Hive provides a mechanism to put structure on this data and query the data using a SQL-like language called HiveQL. At the same time this language also allows traditional map/reduce programmers to plug in their custom mappers and reducers when it is inconvenient or inefficient to express this logic in HiveQL.
Links to Hive 0.6.0 download mirrors can be found on the Hive release page: http://hive.apache.org/releases.html Please consult the Getting Started guide for information about installing and configuring Hive: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/GettingStarted PLEASE READ IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM AN OLDER VERSION OF HIVE: - Hive 0.6.0 includes changes to the MetaStore schema. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Hive it is imperative that you upgrade the MetaStore schema by running the appropriate schema upgrade script located in the scripts/metastore/upgrade directory. We have provided upgrade scripts for Derby, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases. If you are using a different database for your MetaStore you will need to provide your own upgrade script. - Hive 0.6.0 includes new configuration properties. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Hive it is imperative that you replace all of the old copies of the hive-default.xml configuration file with the new version located in the conf/ directory.
