Stinger Phase 2: The Journey to 100x Faster Hive on Hadoop by Carter Shanklin.
From the post:
The Stinger Initiative is Hortonworks’ community-facing roadmap laying out the investments Hortonworks is making to improve Hive performance 100x and evolve Hive to SQL compliance to simplify migrating SQL workloads to Hive.
We launched the Stinger Initiative along with Apache Tez to evolve Hadoop beyond its MapReduce roots into a data processing platform that satisfies the need for both interactive query AND petabyte scale processing. We believe it’s more feasible to evolve Hadoop to cover interactive needs rather than move traditional architectures into the era of big data.
If you don’t think SQL is all that weird, ;-), this is a status update for you!
Serious progress is being made by a broad coalition of more than 60 developers.
Take the challenge and download HDP 2.0 Beta.
You can help build the future of SQL-IN-Hadoop.
But only if you participate.