Hive 1.2.1-1707 Release Notes
This section provides reference information, including new features, fixes, known issues, and limitations for Hive 1.2.1-1707.
Below are release notes for the Hive component included in the MapR Converged Data Platform. You may also be interested in the Apache Hive 1.2.1 changelog or the Apache Hive homepage.
| Hive Version | 1.2.1 |
| Release Date | August 2017 |
| MapR Version Interoperability | See Hive and HCatalog Support Matrix, Ecosystem Support Matrix (Pre-5.2 releases), and EEP Components and OS Support |
| Source on GitHub | https://github.com/mapr/hive/tree/1.2.0-mapr-1707* |
| Maven Artifacts | https://repository.mapr.com/maven/ |
| Package Names | See Package Names for Ecosystem Packs (EEPs) |
* Although the version number in the GitHub source URL is 1.2.0, the content in GitHub applies to MapR Hive 1.2.1
Feature Support
MapR does not support Hive on Spark. Therefore, you cannot use Spark as an execution engine for Hive. However, you can run Hive and Spark on the same cluster. You can also use Spark SQL and Drill to query Hive tables.
Fixes
This release by MapR includes the following fixes on the base Apache release. For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.
| Commit | Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| bca7e4a | 2017-07-12 | MAPR-27613: The issue that caused an exception when querying table using HiveServer2 is now fixed. |
| ce549fa | 2017-06-27 | MAPR-28068: The issue that caused record reader to throw an exception when trying to read an empty split is now fixed. |
| b3be3a1 | 2017-06-15 | MAPR-27799: The issue that caused Hive "DROP DATABASE" query to throw exceptions in the logs is now fixed. |
| 5ce6342 | 2017-06-01 | MAPR-22115: The issue that caused Hive to prompt for username and password when using MapR SASL and Kerberos for authentication is now fixed. |
| 12d7524 | 2017-05-29 | MAPR-27427: The issue that caused Hive parser to ignore comments when the
line started with two dashes (--) is now fixed. |
| a50cbae | 2017-05-24 | MAPR-27033: The issue that caused Datanucleus MSSQLServerAdapter to generate incorrect syntax for OFFSET-FETCH clause when working with MS SQL SERVER that is greater than or equal to 2012 is now fixed. |
| bd2e507 | 2017-05-24 | MAPR-27483: The mismatch in hive and hbase in the result returned when
counting number of records when there were NULL fields is now fixed by a new
property, hive.read.all.hbase.column, which when set to:
|
| ef1fd04 | 2017-04-24 | MAPR-HIVE-13: Added Hive Integration HCatalog Unit Tests to the process of Hive auto testing. |
| b7cbc74 | 2017-05-23 | MAPR-26938: The issue that caused Hive metastore JVM to encrypt more than 256M of data in one shot and crush itself as result is fixed. |
| d901210 | 2015-08-04 | MAPR-26310: The issue that caused Hive CLI startup to take some time when there were large number of databases is now fixed. |
| 8c1aab1 | 2017-03-23 | MAPR-26388: Hive will now process the version of Spark to determine whether spark-assemby JAR is needed. |
| 40fb934 | 2017-03-21 | MAPR-26325: The issue that caused Hive insert record to have a different column order than the select statement column order is now fixed. |
| ca0a9c4 | 2017-03-16 | MAPR-26237: The issue that caused some queries with multiple inserts to fail in Hive 1.2 is now fixed. |
| e5570c1 | 2017-03-13 | MAPR-26406: Hive 1.2 did not work in classic mode because
xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar was not in the Hive classpath. This is now
fixed. |
| 4a5ef75 | 2017-03-13 | MAPR-26138: The outdated commons-lang3 in Hive was breaking
Spark. This is now fixed. |
| 195ec67 | 2017-03-09 | MAPR-26337: The issue that caused exceptions while using Hive delegation tokens is now fixed. |
| 5527271 | 2017-03-07 | MAPR-26371: Some tests were working incorrectly because of missing
mapr.login.conf file. This is now fixed. |
This release by MapR includes the following backported issues. For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.
| Commit | Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2692767 | 2017-05-31 | HIVE-12790: The Metastore connection was leaking in HiveServer2 as a result of multiple open connections. This is now fixed. |
| c0654ff | 2015-10-16 | HIVE-12200: The issue that caused INSERT INTO table using a select statement without a FROM clause to fail is now fixed. |
| 98be5eb | 2017-04-26 | HIVE-13510: The issue that caused dynamic partitioning to fail when remote metastore was being used is now fixed. |
| a4fe01f | 2017-03-22 | HIVE-12988: Includes immprovements to dynamic partition loading. |
| fa0e50e | 2017-03-21 | HIVE-12908: Includes immprovements to dynamic partition loading. |
| df7488e | 2017-03-20 | HIVE-12907: Includes immprovements to dynamic partition loading. |
| 028dde3 | 2017-03-20 | HIVE-12897: Includes immprovements to dynamic partition loading. |
| 966f2ae | 2015-07-02 | HIVE-11157: The issue that caused Hive.get(HiveConf) to
return the same Hive object to different user sessions is now fixed. |
| 0503550 | 2017-03-27 | HIVE-13954: Parquet logs will now go to STDERR (similar to Hive) instead of STDOUT (which Hive uses for query output only). |
| 3166549 | 2017-04-03 | HIVE-15331: The issue that caused decimal multiplication with high precision/scale to often return NULL is now fixed. |