This is the documentation for CDH 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.
Apache Sentry (incubating) Incompatible Changes
CDH 5.1 introduces a new privilege model in Sentry. This introduces a backward
incompatible change for Impala. Creating a new object now requires the
ALL privilege on the parent object. For example, creating a database
now requires server-level privileges (previously needed database-level) and creating a
table requires database-level privileges (previously needed table-level).