Category: documentation

Switching from SVN to Git

We are switching our version control repository from Subversion to Git. Initially I read Why Distributed Version Control Matter to You, Today and shrugged my shoulders and said, “Maybe so, but subversion works fine.” However we recently ran into a situation where we needed more robust branching and merging features than Subversion had […]

Install Instructions Updated

The instructions posted on the site are once again up to date.
We’ve changed the HiveDB maven project so that it now builds two separate targets.

target/lib/ contains the HiveDB library jar
target/bin/ contains hive-installer and other tools

The names of the jars created have also changed. Now when you run mvn install you will get […]

Hive Connections are Transaction Scoped

HiveDB Connections have the same scope as a database transaction.
When writing an application that uses HiveDB you should consider the connections that you obtain from the Hive to have the same scope as a single database transaction. Further you should obtain a new connection from the Hive for each transaction. You don’t need […]