shark

Shark 0.9.3 is a maintenance release that bumps up Tachyon compatibility to 0.5.0.

Release date: April 10, 2014

Shark 0.9.1 is a maintenance release that stabilizes 0.9.0, which bumps up Scala compatibility to 2.10.3 and Hive compliance to 0.11. The core dependencies for this version are:

• Scala 2.10.3
• Spark 0.9.1
• AMPLab’s Hive 0.9.0
• (Optional) Tachyon 0.4.1

Hive Compatibility

We’ve extensively upgraded the Shark codebase to be Hive 0.11 compliant. Existing users c...

Release date: Feb 18, 2014

Please refer to Shark 0.9.1 release notes.

Release date: Jan 15, 2014

Shark 0.8.1 introduces set of performance, maintenance and usability features, with emphasis on improved Hive compatibility, Tachyon support, Spark integration, and table generating functions. This release requires

• Scala 2.9.3
• Spark 0.8.1
• AMPLab's Hive 0.9 distribution. Binaries are provided in the hive-0.9.0-bin.tgz shipped with this release.

Caching Seman...

Release date: Oct 17, 2013

We are happy to announce Shark 0.8.0, which is a major release the brings many new capabilities and performance improvements.

Shuffle Performance for Large Aggregations and Joins

We’ve implemented a new data serialization format that substantially improved shuffle performance in the case of large aggregations and joins. The new format is more CPU-efficient, while...