Can the MERGE DML feature added to Hive 1.2 on HDP 2.6.5 be used on Production.
The following blog shows benchmarks that seem to be from Hive2 Interactive with LLAP
https://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hive-moving-beyond-analytics-offload-with-sql-merge/
However I wanted to understand if the same feature could be used with Hive 1.2, of course under performance limitations that are there with Hive 1.2. I also wanted to hear about use cases where the same is being used on Production.