Student Becomes Apache Committer


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Yin Huai has been selected to become a software committer for the data warehouse software Hive project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. This is a high recognition to Yin's technical capability and his contributions to Hive. Yin has contributed multiple software patches to Hive. The major effort he has recently made is to merge YSmart to Hive, significantly improving the productivity of data processing. YSmart is a SQL-to-MapReduce translator with powerful optimizations. Yin is a co-author of the YSmart paper that received the Best Paper Award in the 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Being a committer, Yin will have a high responsibility for the future direction, innovation, and quality of Apache Hive.

Apache Hive is a production open source software for big data analytics, which has been widely used in major organizations, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, and Taobao. Yin Huai is a Ph.D. student under supervision of Professor Xiaodong Zhang, working on data management in distributed systems.