Hi, I'm working on introducing a feature to make IMetaStoreClient pluggable. I'm sending this e-mail to gather opinions in a visible manner because it has controversial points.
Some Hive users need the feature in order to integrate Hive with a data catalog other than HMS. Although the original patch was submitted more than 7 years ago and many users have wanted it, it has not been merged yet. I revived the ticket and PR so that we can maintain or improve it within the community. - JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12679 - PR: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/4444 I initially created the above PR based on the original design. That's because I think it is reasonable enough and I can see some users have already ported the patch for the past 7 years. But there are also other opinions to suggest other designs. This is a summary for easy catch-up. https://gist.github.com/okumin/30b058b14db1b099ba37ba7dc257fe8e If you are interested in this problem and you have any opinions, please put a comment on the Pull Request. Regards, Okumin
