[KUDU-2362] First class database support

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Labels: roadmap-candidate
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Grant Henke
• Created: 20/Mar/18 19:36
• Updated: 18/Jun/19 13:02

Description

This is a Jira is to track the tasks of adding first class "real" database support to Kudu. 

Currently Impala maps databases to Kudu by pre-pending the database name to the table name. With HMS integration (KUDU-2191) we see a similar pattern. Looking forward, authorization and backup features could also leverage the concept a database. 

It may be worth implementing this now to prevent a tricky compatibility issues with all of these features. (We could map all tables to a default database, but already we would need to handle the impala naming format and migration). 

 

Sub-Tasks

• Add database name to table metadata: Open