[HIVE-143] Remove the old Metastore

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: HIVE-143. Remove the old file based metastore, in favour of the RDBMS based metastore. (prasadc via johan)
• Assignee: Prasad Chakka
• Reporter: Johan Oskarsson
• Created: 09/Dec/08 11:59
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:07
• Resolved: 15/Apr/09 17:09

Description

It is my understanding that there are two metastores, one HDFS based that isn't being used anymore and one new based on SQL databases. This causes some confusion and extra work for new developers, myself included. Am I correct in thinking that the old Metastore won't be used anymore and could be removed?