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The HCatalog interface for MapReduce — HCatInputFormat and HCatOutputFormat — is an implementation of Hadoop InputFormat and OutputFormat. HCatInputFormat accepts a table to read data from and optionally a selection predicate to indicate which partitions to scan. HCatOutputFormat accepts a table to write to and optionally a specification of partition keys to create a new partition. You can write to a single partition by specifying the partition key(s) and value(s) in the setOutput method; and you can write to multiple partitions if the partition key(s) are columns in the data being stored. (See Input and Output Interfaces.)

Note: There is no Hive-specific interface. Since HCatalog uses Hive's metastore, Hive can read data in HCatalog directly.

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