Re: Data Contracts

2023-06-12 Thread Elliot West
Hi Phillip, While not as fine-grained as your example, there do exist schema systems such as that in Avro that can can evaluate compatible and incompatible changes to the schema, from the perspective of the reader, writer, or both. This provides some potential degree of enforcement, and means to c

Re: Spark Multiple Hive Metastore Catalog Support

2023-04-17 Thread Elliot West
Hi Ankit, While not a part of Spark, there is a project called 'WaggleDance' that can federate multiple Hive metastores so that they are accessible via a single URI: https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/waggle-dance This may be useful or perhaps serve as inspiration. Thanks, Elliot. On Mon, 17 Apr

Fwd: Spark integration with HCatalog (specifically regarding partitions)

2016-01-19 Thread Elliot West
(Cross posted from u...@spark.apache.org) Hello, I am in the process of evaluating Spark (1.5.2) for a wide range of use cases. In particular I'm keen to understand the depth of the integration with HCatalog (aka the Hive Metastore). I am very encouraged when browsing the source contained within