[IMPALA-10152] Add support for Iceberg HiveCatalog

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Impala 4.0.0
• Labels: impala-iceberg
• Epic Color: ghx-label-9
• Assignee: Zoltán Borók-Nagy
• Reporter: Zoltán Borók-Nagy
• Created: 08/Sep/20 09:08
• Updated: 25/Jan/21 11:21
• Resolved: 01/Dec/20 14:21

Description

HadoopTables and HadoopCatalog only work on filesystems that support atomic rename. Therefore they are not safe on S3.

HiveCatalog uses the Hive Metastore to keep track of Iceberg tables, so we should use this interface when we store our tables in object stores.