[IMPALA-12095] Retire Beeswax client protocol

• Type: Epic
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Impala 4.3.0
• Epic Name: Retire Beeswax
• Epic Color: ghx-label-2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joe McDonnell
• Created: 24/Apr/23 22:53
• Updated: 05/Sep/24 05:45

Description

There has been a long-running shift away from the old Beeswax protocol towards the Hiveserver2 protocol. impala-shell now defaults to HS2 rather than Beeswax (https://lists.apache.org/thread/16w0gcodthjsqkno6oxy5vqzy3rkmqtd ). Impala 4 deprecated Beeswax (https://lists.apache.org/thread/4b7ghrrtg8hn150zgrldsgtvqfdby4ld ).

This epic tracks tasks to prepare to remove Beeswax.

In general, the following needs to happen as preparation:

1. All tests need to run with HS2 by default.
2. All other helper code (like dataload or the performance test code) need to run with HS2 by default.
3. Disable the beeswax port by default

In general, having tests use HS2 rather than Beeswax provides better coverage of what users actual do.

Then, in a major version bump, Beeswax can be removed.

Issue Links

• is related to: IMPALA-12674 Impala 5