Stamatis Zampetakis created HIVE-25701:
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Summary: Declare JDBC drivers as runtime & optional dependencies
Key: HIVE-25701
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-25701
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Task
Components: Standalone Metastore, Testing Infrastructure
Reporter: Stamatis Zampetakis
Assignee: Stamatis Zampetakis
Currently, we are using the following JDBC drivers in various Hive modules:
* MariaDB
* MySQL
* Oracle
* Postgres
* MSSQL
* Derby
MariaDB, MySQL, and Oracle licenses are not compatible with Apache License 2
([Category-X |https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x]) and in
the past we used various ways to circumvent licensing problems (see
HIVE-23284). Now, some of them appear as test scope dependency which is OKish
but in the near future may lead again to licensing problems.
JDBC drivers are only needed at runtime so they could all be declared at
runtime scope. Moreover, Hive does not require a specific JDBC driver in order
to operate so they are all optional.
The goal of this issue is to declare every JDBC driver at runtime scope and
mark it as optional
([ASF-optional|https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional],
[maven-optional|https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-optional-and-excludes-dependencies.html]).
This has the following advantages:
* Eliminates the risk to write code which needs JDBC driver classes in order to
compile and potentially violate AL2.
* Unifies the declaration of JDBC drivers making easier to add/remove some if
necessary.
* Removes the need to use download-maven-plugin and other similar workarounds
to avoid licensing problems.
* Simplifies the execution of tests using these drivers since now they are
added in the runtime classpath automatically by maven.
* Projects with dependencies depending on Hive will not inherit any JDBC driver
by default.
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