HIVE-895 Add SerDe for Avro serialized data (Jakob Homan via egc)

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HIVE-2736 : Hive UDFs cannot emit binary constants (Philip Tromans via Ashutosh Chauhan)

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Bumped the version to amplab-4.
apply HIVE-2549 to enable cross join
Add new Date primitive data type into HIVE.
Merge pull request #17 from sun-rui/shark-0.9

Adding Date primitive type to Hive.
Add Dummy StorageHandler which useful in SELECT benchmarking test
Fix NullPointerException for Constant Null value
Merge pull request #21 from chenghao-intel/chenghao/shark-0.9

Add Dummy StorageHandler & Fix NullPointerException bug of ExprNodeConstantDesc
fix bug of boolean equals() method, the reference comparison works incorrectly after deserialization
Merge pull request #22 from chenghao-intel/shark-0.9

fix bug of boolean equals() method, the reference comparison works incor...