Does hive have a data dictionary?
问题 Does hive have a data dictionary? I am trying to fetch the column names of tables in hive. Similar to oracle query other than describe command: SELECT COLUMN_NAME,DATA_TYPE FROM USER_TAB_COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = ? ORDER BY COLUMN_ID; 回答1: Hive uses an external relational database as its metastore. You can query the configured metastore directly, using the metastore API (eg. MySQL). A higher level component is HCatalog, which offers an API to access and manipulate the metastore. 回答2: Hive