Hello, I'm interested in accessing the hive column statistics, and publishing to another source. Currently the only way I'm aware to access these is via DESCRIBE FORMATTED tablename column_name . But the result seems like a custom format that would be difficult to parse and could break.
On said page it mentions a thrift api and metastore tables. Then is the best way to access the statistics in a programmatic manor to either query the metastore directly via JDBC or access via thrift api? Or is there another way to get at this information through hive JDBC, in a more accessible manor?
