Very good, that makes it pretty easy to read Hive tables with Flink. Thanks Alan!
2015-02-04 19:35 GMT+01:00 Alan Gates <ga...@hortonworks.com>: > HCatalog supports all types of Hive tables. You can think of it as > basically and access layer for non-Hive clients to read and write Hive’s > metadata. > > Alan. > > From: Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> > Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 2:14 > To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> > Subject: Does HCatalog subsume Metastore? > > Hi everybody, > > I want to add support for reading Hive-managed data to Apache Flink and > have a question regarding the overlap of HCatalog and Hive metastore. > > Is it sufficient to add support for HCatalog or do we also need to add > an InputFormat for "regular" Hive metastore tables? So basically, does the > HCatalogInputFormat only provide access to tables which were created and > managed through HCatalog or can it also read "regular" Hive tables in > setups that do not use HCatalog? > > Thanks and best regards, Fabian > >
