Hive 0.8.1发布，该版本修复了一些bug，详细请见：https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310843&version=12319268

Bug

• [HIVE-2616] - Passing user identity from metastore client to server in non-secure mode
• [HIVE-2629] - Make a single Hive binary work with both 0.20.x and 0.23.0
• [HIVE-2631] - Make Hive work with Hadoop 1.0.0

Improvement

• [HIVE-2589] - Newly created partition should inherit properties from table

Hive是Facebook 2008年8月刚开源的一个数据仓库框架，其系统目标与 Pig 有相似之处，但它有一些Pig目前还不支持的机制，比如：更丰富的类型系统、更类似SQL的查询语言、Table/Partition元数据的持久化等