Apache Hive : Howl

This page collects some pointers to resources about Howl (an effort to create a metastore for all of Hadoop) and how its first incarnation is being built by reusing and extending Hive’s metastore and CLI.

• Howl wiki
• Yahoo group for Howl developers (including mailing list archive)
• Howl source code at github
• Howl CLI functional spec
• Original plans for Owl (predecessor to Howl)