Answer: Development of Hive started around 08/2007 - and the open source release happened around 08/2008 (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3601 ). Much more development in Hive happened after this time period (than in it) - and it continues to be in active development at Facebook...
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