[ARROW-3050] [C++] Adopt HiveServer2 client C++ codebase

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19409
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 14/Aug/18 03:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:24
• Resolved: 21/Aug/18 14:54

Description

I helped develop a small C++/Python library for interacting with databases like Hive and Impala via the HiveServer2 Thrift protocol and making them accessible to Python / pandas:

https://github.com/cloudera/hs2client

Internally this interfaces with HS2's own columnar representation. Arrow is a natural partner for this project, much of which could be discarded. I think Arrow would make as much sense as any place to develop this codebase further. It could be later split off into a new project if a large enough community develops

cc twmarshall mjacobs for thoughts

If we did this, do we need to do a software grant (essentially what I'm proposing is to fork)? Can we just attribute the original Cloudera authors in LICENSE.txt?

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2444