This document discusses new features in Apache Hive 2.0, including: 1) Adding procedural SQL capabilities through HPLSQL for writing stored procedures. 2) Improving query performance through LLAP which uses persistent daemons and in-memory caching to enable sub-second queries. 3) Speeding up query planning by using HBase as the metastore instead of a relational database. 4) Enhancements to Hive on Spark such as dynamic partition pruning and vectorized operations. 5) Default use of the cost-based optimizer and continued improvements to statistics collection and estimation.