Meet the Founders - Alan Gates and Apache Hive

This is a pre-hadoop summit meetup http://hadoopsummit.org/melbourne .

Join us with Alan Gates who is a co-founder at Hortonworks and an original member of the engineering team that took Pig from a Yahoo! Labs research project to a successful Apache open source project. Alan also designed HCatalog and guided its adoption as an Apache Incubator project. Alan has a BS in Mathematics from Oregon State University and a MA in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is also the author of Programming Pig, a book from O’Reilly Press.

Apache Hive is now the defacto SQL engine for Hadoop, most of the hadoop users uses Hive actively in storing data in variety of formats, Hive been known as Batch and might be slow at sometimes, but with Tez and now LLAP Hive is getting to be a sub second query engine as well, Alan will take us through quick Hive history and Hive LLAP and what has been done for Hive and what is the future for Hive as well from a PMC member view prespecitve.

This meetup will be joined with the Apache Zeppelin Founders meetup that is announced at the Spark Melbourne group.

Pizza/Light snacks and Beer will be provided as usual.