Earlier this year, the Apache open source community delivered the Stinger Initiative to improve speed, scale and SQL semantics in Apache Hive. Now Stinger.next is underway, to build on those initial successes. In this presentation, from a webinar hosted by Hortonworks co-founder Alan Gates and Hortonworks Hive product manager Raj Baines, you can learn more about Stinger.next and innovation in Apache Hive. Alan and Raj cover new Hive functionality for more speed, scale and SQL in HDP 2.2. Specific topics include transactions with ACID semantics, the cost based optimizer and dynamic query optimizations. The presentation also shows future plans for the Stinger.next initiative.