[FALCON-946] Integrate Falcon with Hive/HCatalog version 0.13.0 or higher

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.7, trunk
• Component/s: common
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adam Kawa
• Created: 12/Dec/14 09:42
• Updated: 06/Mar/15 12:05
• Resolved: 06/Mar/15 12:05

Description

Currently, feeds and processes that access Hive tables fail when that table contains e.g. TIMESTAMP column. The error that you get is:

 IO error, Type timestamp not present

This is because, Falcon is currently compiled with Hive 0.11

        <hive.version>0.11.0</hive.version>

HCat 0.11 doesn't support TIMESTAMP types. TIMESTAMP type (as well as DATA, CHAR and a couple of more) was added in Hive 0.13.0 by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5814.

Therefore, we should integrate Falcon with Hive/HCatalog version 0.13.0 or higher

This will for example include:

• switching imports from org.apache.hcatalog to org.apache.hive.hcatalog
• updating version number in pom.xml files
• and probably a couple of more changes.

Issue Links

• relates to: FALCON-417 Upgrade Hive and HCatalog to latest stable version