[jira] [Created] (RANGER-2689) Support multiple versions of Hive

["Andrew Charneski (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andrew Charneski created RANGER-2689:
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             Summary: Support multiple versions of Hive
                 Key: RANGER-2689
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-2689
             Project: Ranger
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: plugins
            Reporter: Andrew Charneski


Currently Ranger supports the latest version of Hive, 3.1.2. Unfortunately, there are large segments of the big data community that relies on older versions of Hive. Two major examples:

# Spark SQL uses a forked version of Hive 1.2.1 (https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-migration-guide-hive-compatibility.html)
# EMR provides Hive only up to 2.3.5 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/Hive-release-history.html)

In order to support these internally, my organization has prepared two modifications of Ranger to link against these versions. These are illustrated in the PRs https://github.com/acharneski/ranger/pull/4 and https://github.com/apache/ranger/pull/51

We would like to eliminate the need for entirely separate builds of Ranger to support this, and integrate these variants into the main Ranger codebase. We are willing to do the bulk of the implementation but would first like to discuss the architecture of this change so as to build it in a way the Ranger committers would be amenable to adopting. 

My initial thought is to split the `hive-agent` module into something like `hive-agent-base`, `hive-agent-1`, `hive-agent-2`, and `hive-agent-3`. This would allow us to explicitly link to each major version of Hive while minimizing the duplication of code. Thoughts? 

Thank you!



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