This document discusses the new features of Apache Hive 2.0, including: 1) The addition of procedural SQL capabilities through HPLSQL to add features like cursors and loops. 2) Performance improvements for interactive queries through LLAP which uses in-memory caching and persistent daemons. 3) Using HBase as the metastore to speed up query planning by reducing metadata access times. 4) Enhancements to Hive on Spark such as dynamic partition pruning and vectorized joins. 5) Improvements to the cost-based optimizer including better statistics collection.