<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Stinger.next is the second large effort Hortonworks has spearheaded in order to improve the performance of Hive. The company recently completed its goals for the initial Stinger project, on which it began work in 2012 and which the company<wm>'s top engineers had given up all hope of ever finishing. The new version includes several significant design enhancements.

Before starting the next Stinger project, the company has continued working on improving performance and functionality for its users, with the aid of user feedback. "We've always been open about how much we value our users' suggestions for a bigger improvement in performance and usability," said Mark Simpson, a key engineer on the project, in an interview with HCl Media. "Now we have now gone and</wm> succeeded with the release we have given Stinger the power to work around this point."

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