HAF is evidently going to make life easier for developers to integrate into Hive. It seems like the database management is now turned into something that developers are accustomed to and understand.
The core team handles the base layer and feeds it into HAF which allows others to integrate in with languages they know.
Seems like it can be a major boost to development.
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A major boost to development AND offloads some of the heavy lifting on the nodes because they won't be hammered for excess data when all we need can be provided by consuming highly tuned SQL queries :)