In February 2013, the open source community launched the Stinger Initiative to improve speed, scale and SQL semantics in Apache Hive. After thirteen months of constant, concerted collaboration (and more than 390,000 new lines of Java code) Stinger is complete with Hive 0.13.
In this presentation, Carter Shanklin, Hortonworks director of product management, and Owen O'Malley, Hortonworks co-founder and committer to Apache Hive, discuss how Hive enables interactive query using familiar SQL semantics.