danny0405 commented on issue #11012: [FLINK-15858][hive] Store generic table schema as properties URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/11012#issuecomment-581865727 > > What is a 'generic table', it seems not a jargon or terminology > > HiveCatalog can handle two kinds of tables: hive-compatible tables and generic tables. For the former, we store the metadata in a hive-compatible way so that Hive itself can access those tables. For the latter, we just use HMS as a storage to persist the metadata, and Hive won't be able to (and doesn't need to) understand that metadata. I guess the latter one is `generic` from HMS's point of view. Thanks for the explanation !
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