This roadmap is proposed and has not yet been accepted/approved by the HCatalog community.

HCatalog Roadmap

Hive today provides a simple and familiar database like tabular model of data management to its users. HCatalog seeks to generalize this table model, so that Hive tables become Hadoop tables. Hadoop tables can be backed by HDFS or alternate storage systems such as cloud stores, NoSQL stores or databases. Hadoop tables can be easily used by all current and future Hadoop programing and data management frameworks. Programing frameworks, including Map-Reduce, Pig, Streaming and many others. HCatalog APIs are being created to enable future data management frameworks to allow data migrations, replication, transformation, archival and other services.

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