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ANALYZE TABLE [db_name.]tablename [PARTITION(partcol1[=val1], partcol2[=val2], ...)]  -- (Note: Fully support qualified table name since Hive 1.2.0, see HIVE-10007.)
  COMPUTE STATISTICS 
  [FOR COLUMNS]          -- (Note: Hive 0.10.0 and later.)
  [CACHE METADATA]       -- (Note: Hive 2.1.0 and later.)
  [NOSCAN];

When the user issues that command, he may or may not specify the partition specs. If the user doesn't specify any partition specs, statistics are gathered for the table as well as all the partitions (if any). If certain partition specs are specified, then statistics are gathered for only those partitions. When computing statistics across all partitions, the partition columns still need to be listed. As of Hive 1.2.0, Hive fully supports qualified table name in this command. User can only compute the statistics for a table under current database if a non-qualified table name is used.

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then statistics, number of files and physical size in bytes are gathered for partitions 3 and 4 only.

ANALYZE TABLE <table1> CACHE METADATA

When Hive metastore is configured to use HBase, this command explicitly caches file metadata in HBase metastore.  

The goal of this feature is to cache file metadata (e.g. ORC file footers) to avoid reading lots of files from HDFS at split generation time, as well as potentially cache some information about splits (e.g. grouping based on location that would be good for some short time) to further speed up the generation and achieve better cache locality with consistent splits.

ANALYZE TABLE Table1 CACHE METADATA;

See feature details in HBase Metastore Split Cache and (HIVE-12075)

Current Status (JIRA)