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Thomas Weise commented on HIVE-2467:
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Yes, this was the intention. Also, the current ZK token store implementation
could be translated into a SQL implementation with relatively small effort (it
does not depend on ZK watches for invalidation). For our use, we plan to deal
with the security limitation at L3 and use ZK security when it becomes
available. Longer term, assuming there will be use cases outside HCatalog/Hive
for long running processes that require token support in conjunction with HA
but without HA RDBMS already available, a ZK based token storage might be a
more likely choice. While plain HDFS is secure it does not support the access
pattern needed here (fast random reads and writes).
> HA Support for Metastore Server
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>
> Key: HIVE-2467
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2467
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore, Security, Server Infrastructure
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0, 0.9.0
> Reporter: Thomas Weise
> Assignee: Thomas Weise
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-2467.patch
>
>
> We require HA deployment for metastore server for HCatalog:
> * Multiple server instances run behind VIP
> * Database provides HA
> Metastore server instances will need to be able to share any state required
> for VIP outside RDBMS. As of Hive 0.8 affected conversational state that
> needs to support VIP/HA setup is limited to current delegation tokens. Is
> this correct?
> We are planning to use ZooKeeper to share current delegation tokens and
> master keys between nodes of the VIP. ZK is already (optionally) used by Hive
> for concurrency control. Access to ZK would be limited on the network level
> or in the future, when ZooKeeper supports security, through Kerberos, similar
> to NN access.
> Currently Hive taps into Hadoop core security delegation token support
> through extension of
> org.apache.hadoop.security.token.delegation.AbstractDelegationTokenSecretManager<TokenIdent>
> A solution could amend the Hive specific extension to support:
> * Pluggable delegation token and master key store (ZooKeeper as alternative
> for in-memory AbstractDelegationTokenSecretManager)
> * Delegation token retrieval from token store when not found in memory
> (wrap/extend retrievePassword(...))
> * Cancellation of token in token store
> * Purging of expired tokens from token store
> http://www.mail-archive.com/hcatalog-user@incubator.apache.org/msg00053.html
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