The Apache Hive team is proud to announce the the release of Apache Hive version 2.0.0.
The Apache Hive (TM) data warehouse software facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. Built on top of Apache Hadoop (TM), it provides: * Tools to enable easy data extract/transform/load (ETL) * A mechanism to impose structure on a variety of data formats * Access to files stored either directly in Apache HDFS (TM) or in other data storage systems such as Apache HBase (TM) * Query execution via Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Tez frameworks. For Hive release details and downloads, please visit: https://hive.apache.org/downloads.html Hive 2.0.0 Release Notes are available here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12332641&pro jectId=12310843 We would like to thank the many contributors who made this release possible. Regards, The Apache Hive Team