Hi All, I'd like to discuss how we can start integrating Apache Hive 3.x and future 4.x into our Sentry versions. I've noticed that Hive has released two versions of 3.x this year (3.0 on May/18, 3.1 on Jul/18), and the current version development is 4.0.
Currently, Sentry supports only the Hive 2.x, and there is no news of new minor versions on that line to be released in the community. However, there are still companies using the Hive 2.x version due to its stability and API compatibility. Also, I see a lot of incompatibilities problems once Hive 4.0 is released too. So, the question, how can we keep with the most updated Hive releases but being compatible with Hive versions that are still active by the Sentry community? Btw, Hive 3.x has features that allow Sentry support ALTER TABLE SET OWNER commands to transfer object ownership. Hive had a shims interface for Hadoop to support Hadoop 1.x and Hadoop 2.x in the past. Should we use a similar thing? Any other ideas? - Sergio
