Announcing Apache Hive 0.13 and Completion of the Stinger Initiative! by Harish Butani.
From the post:
The Apache Hive community has voted on and released version 0.13 today. This is a significant release that represents a major effort from over 70 members who worked diligently to close out over 1080 JIRA tickets.
Hive 0.13 also delivers the third and final phase of the Stinger Initiative, a broad community based initiative to drive the future of Apache Hive, delivering 100x performance improvements at petabyte scale with familiar SQL semantics. These improvements extend Hive beyond its traditional roots and brings true interactive SQL query to Hadoop.
Ultimately, over 145 developers representing 44 companies, from across the Apache Hive community contributed over 390,000 lines of code to the project in just 13 months, nearly doubling the Hive code base.
The three phases of this important project spanned Hive versions 0.11, 0.12 and 0.13. Additionally, the Apache Hive team coordinated this 0.13 release with the simultaneous release of Apache Tez 0.4. Tez’s DAG execution speeds Hive queries run on Tez.
Kudos to one and all!
Open source work at its very best!