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• STRING
• VARCHAR (Note: Only available starting with Hive 0.12.0)
• CHAR (Note: Only available starting with Hive 0.13.0)

Misc Types

• BOOLEAN
• BINARY (Note: Only available starting with Hive 0.8.0)

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Char

Char types are similar to Varchar but they are fixed-length meaning that values shorter than the specified length value are padded with spaces but trailing spaces are not important during comparisons. The maximum length is fixed at 255.

CREATE TABLE foo (bar CHAR(10))

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