Sergio, We could add profiles for to multiple version of Hive till the point we want to support multiple versions. We should also consider supporting Hadoop-3 as well. We could take similar approach to support multiple versions of Hadoop as well.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:22 AM Sergio Pena <sergio.p...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > 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 >
