## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
This is a step towards merging `SQLContext` and `HiveContext`. A new internal Catalog API was introduced in #10982 and extended in #11069. This patch introduces an implementation of this API using `HiveClient`, an existing interface to Hive. It also extends `HiveClient` with additional calls to Hive that are needed to complete the catalog implementation.
*Where should I start reviewing?* The new catalog introduced is `HiveCatalog`. This class is relatively simple because it just calls `HiveClientImpl`, where most of the new logic is. I would not start with `HiveClient`, `HiveQl`, or `HiveMetastoreCatalog`, which are modified mainly because of a refactor.
*Why is this patch so big?* I had to refactor HiveClient to remove an intermediate representation of databases, tables, partitions etc. After this refactor `CatalogTable` convert directly to and from `HiveTable` (etc.). Otherwise we would have to first convert `CatalogTable` to the intermediate representation and then convert that to HiveTable, which is messy.
The new class hierarchy is as follows:
```
org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.catalog.Catalog
- org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.catalog.InMemoryCatalog
- org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveCatalog
```
Note that, as of this patch, none of these classes are currently used anywhere yet. This will come in the future before the Spark 2.0 release.
## How was the this patch tested?
All existing unit tests, and HiveCatalogSuite that extends CatalogTestCases.
Author: Andrew Or <andrew@databricks.com>
Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>
Closes#11293 from rxin/hive-catalog.
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