RCFile was done first because it was what we needed first. But take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-237 We are moving towards using Hive's SerDes, so anything supported by Hive will be supported by HCat.
Alan. On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Zaki Syed wrote: > Hi > > I would like to know whether they are any plans of supporting other formats > in HCatalog apart from RCFile. > > 1) Why RCFile Format was given preference over others? > 2) How do you import data that is available in CSV file into HCatalog table, > as of now it supports only RCFile Format. > 3) In what way HCatalog differs from Hive? > > Please Advice > > Thanks in Advance > Zaki
