============ Release 0.57

Distinct Aggregations

The DISTINCT argument qualifier for aggregation functions is now fully supported. For example::

SELECT country, count(DISTINCT city), count(DISTINCT age)
FROM users
GROUP BY country

.. note::

:func:`!approx_distinct` should be used in preference to this
whenever an approximate answer is allowable as it is substantially
faster and does not have any limits on the number of distinct items it
can process. ``COUNT(DISTINCT ...)`` must transfer every item over the
network and keep each distinct item in memory.

Hadoop 2.x

Use the hive-hadoop2 connector to read Hive data from Hadoop 2.x. See :doc:/installation/deployment for details.

Amazon S3

All Hive connectors support reading data from Amazon S3 <http://aws.amazon.com/s3/>_. This requires two additional catalog properties for the Hive connector to specify your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key:

.. code-block:: none

hive.s3.aws-access-key=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
hive.s3.aws-secret-key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

Miscellaneous

• Allow specifying catalog and schema in the :doc:JDBC </clients/java> URL.

• Implement more functionality in the JDBC driver.

• Allow certain custom InputFormat\s to work by propagating Hive serialization properties to the RecordReader.

• Many execution engine performance improvements.

• Fix optimizer performance regression.

• Fix weird MethodHandle exception.