[HIVE-16994] Support connection pooling for HiveMetaStoreClient

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Hive
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alex Kolbasov
• Created: 30/Jun/17 00:04
• Updated: 14/Jun/19 16:39

Description

The native HiveMetaStoreClient doesn't support connection pooling. I think it would be a very useful feature, especially in Kerberos environments where connection establishment may be especially expensive.

A similar feature is now supported in Sentry - see SENTRY-1580.