Hive 0.8 with MapR

Hello mandoskippy, are you saying that you've successfully tested hive 0.9 from apache on mapr's distro? If so, which version of MapR are you running?

At my company, we are attempting to use analytical functions on Hive, but we are getting errors. We suspect it may be because these functions require hive > 0.7.1, but that is the version packaged in MapR's latest release 7/13/2012 v1.2.9 as of this writing. However, we have tried only on MapR 1.2.0 so far. https://github.com/hbutani/SQLWindowing/wiki

$ hive --service windowingCli 
Hive history file=/tmp/user/hive_job_log_user_201207131711_1150261077.txt 
Exception in thread "main" groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliSessionState.getHost() is applicable for argument types: () values: [] 
Possible solutions: getConf(), getAt(java.lang.String), getClass(), get(), getCmd(), setConf(org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf) 
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.unwrap(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:55) 
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaClassSite.call(PojoMetaClassSite.java:46) 
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:42) 
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108) 
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:112) 
at com.sap.hadoop.windowing.WindowingHiveCliDriver.main(WindowingHiveCliDriver.groovy:187) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) 
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) 
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:186)