Given that a lot of users are trying to use hive 0.13 in spark, and the incompatibility between hive-0.12 and hive-0.13 on the API level I want to propose following approach, which has no or minimum impact on existing hive-0.12 support, but be able to jumpstart the development of hive-0.13 and future version support.

Approach: Introduce “hive-version” property,  and manipulate pom.xml files to support different hive version at compiling time through shim layer, e.g., hive-0.12.0 and hive-0.13.1. More specifically,

1. For each different hive version, there is a very light layer of shim code to handle API differences, sitting in sql/hive/hive-version, e.g., sql/hive/v0.12.0 or sql/hive/v0.13.1

2. Add a new profile hive-default active by default, which picks up all existing configuration and hive-0.12.0 shim (v0.12.0)  if no hive.version is specified.

3. If user specifies different version (currently only 0.13.1 by -Dhive.version = 0.13.1), hive-versions profile will be activated, which pick up hive-version specific shim layer and configuration, mainly the hive jars and hive-version shim, e.g., v0.13.1.

4. With this approach, nothing is changed with current hive-0.12 support.

No change by default: sbt/sbt -Phive
For example: sbt/sbt -Phive -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0 assembly

To enable hive-0.13: sbt/sbt -Dhive.version=0.13.1
For example: sbt/sbt -Dhive.version=0.13.1 -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0 assembly

Note that in hive-0.13, hive-thriftserver is not enabled, which should be fixed by other Jira, and we don’t need -Phive with -Dhive.version in building (probably we should use -Phive -Dhive.version=xxx instead after thrift server is also supported in hive-0.13.1).

Author: Zhan Zhang <zhazhan@gmail.com>
Author: zhzhan <zhazhan@gmail.com>
Author: Patrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>

Closes #2241 from zhzhan/spark-2706 and squashes the following commits:

3ece905 [Zhan Zhang] minor fix
410b668 [Zhan Zhang] solve review comments
cbb4691 [Zhan Zhang] change run-test for new options
0d4d2ed [Zhan Zhang] rebase
497b0f4 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
8fad1cf [Zhan Zhang] change the pom file and make hive-0.13.1 as the default
ab028d1 [Zhan Zhang] rebase
4a2e36d [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
4cb1b93 [zhzhan] Merge pull request #1 from pwendell/pr-2241
b0478c0 [Patrick Wendell] Changes to simplify the build of SPARK-2706
2b50502 [Zhan Zhang] rebase
a72c0d4 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
cb22863 [Zhan Zhang] correct the typo
20f6cf7 [Zhan Zhang] solve compatability issue
f7912a9 [Zhan Zhang] rebase and solve review feedback
301eb4a [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
10c3565 [Zhan Zhang] address review comments
6bc9204 [Zhan Zhang] rebase and remove temparory repo
d3aa3f2 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' into spark-2706
cedcc6f [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
3ced0d7 [Zhan Zhang] rebase
d9b981d [Zhan Zhang] rebase and fix error due to rollback
adf4924 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
3dd50e8 [Zhan Zhang] solve conflicts and remove unnecessary implicts
d10bf00 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
dc7bdb3 [Zhan Zhang] solve conflicts
7e0cc36 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
d7c3e1e [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' into spark-2706
68deb11 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
d48bd18 [Zhan Zhang] address review comments
3ee3b2b [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
57ea52e [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' into spark-2706
2b0d513 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
9412d24 [Zhan Zhang] address review comments
f4af934 [Zhan Zhang] rebase
1ccd7cc [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
128b60b [Zhan Zhang] ignore 0.12.0 test cases for the time being
af9feb9 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
5f5619f [Zhan Zhang] restructure the directory and different hive version support
05d3683 [Zhan Zhang] solve conflicts
e4c1982 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
94b4fdc [Zhan Zhang] Spark-2706: hive-0.13.1 support on spark
87ebf3b [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' into spark-2706
921e914 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
f896b2a [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' into spark-2706
789ea21 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
cb53a2c [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark
f6a8a40 [Zhan Zhang] revert
ba14f28 [Zhan Zhang] test
dbedff3 [Zhan Zhang] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
70964fe [Zhan Zhang] revert
fe0f379 [Zhan Zhang] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/zhzhan/spark
70ffd93 [Zhan Zhang] revert
42585ec [Zhan Zhang] test
7d5fce2 [Zhan Zhang] test