Hive CLI should be part of Hive project Beeline is a jdbc client. It should be separated from Hive (as any other jdbc clients).
I'm not sure I understand business value of beeline. Power users (which has ssh access to cluster) can use Hive CLI. - more reliable approach because it does not need HS2 - simpler authentication (in many cases application users do not have LDAP password) Business users (LDAP users) will probably use GUI jdbc clients (e.g. SQL Workbench/J or SQuirreL SQL) Is beeline production ready? - beeline q tests were disabled about 2 years ago I do not think beeline is popular. I'd rather focus on improving JDBC driver to make sure SQL Workbench/J or SQuirreL SQL can work with hiveserver2 effectively. 7 months ago did several fixes for hive JDBC driver to make basic operations work in SQL Workbench/J and SQuirreL SQL. But lots of jdbc methods still not supported by hive jdbc driver On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Xuefu Zhang <xzh...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to revive the discussion about the fate of Hive CLI, as this topic > has haunted us several times including [1][2]. It looks to me that there is > a consensus that it's not wise for Hive community to keep both Hive CLI as > it is as well as Beeline + HS2. However, I don't believe that no action is > the best action for us. From discussion so far, I see the following > proposals: > > 1. Deprecating Hive CLI and advise that users use Beeline. > 2. Make Hive CLI as naming flavor to beeline with embedded mode. > > Frankly, I don't see much difference between the two approaches. Keeping an > alias at script or even code level isn't that much work. However, shouldn't > we pick a direction and start moving to it? If there is any gaps between > beeline embedded and Hive CLI, we should identify and fill in those. > > I'd love to hear the thoughts from the community and hope this time we will > have concrete action items to work on. > > Thanks, > Xuefu > > [1] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-dev/201412.mbox/%3C5485E1BE.3060709%40hortonworks.com%3E > [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@hive.apache.org/msg112378.html >
