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Controls whether to connect to remote metastore server or open a new metastore server in Hive Client JVM. As of Hive 0.10 this is no longer used. Instead if hive.metastore.uris is set then remote mode is assumed otherwise local.

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Name of the class that implements org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.rawstore interface. This class is used to store and retrieval of raw metadata objects such as table, database.

As of Hive 3.0 there are two implementations. The default implementation (ObjectStore) queries the database directly. HIVE-16520 introduced a new CachedStore (full class name is org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.cache.CachedStore) that caches retrieved objects in memory on the Metastore.

hive.metastore.batch.retrieve.max

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For more information, see Metastore Schema Consistency and Upgrades.

hive.metastore.disallow.incompatible.col.type.changes

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Starting in Hive release 0.11.0, HCatalog is installed and configured with Hive. The HCatalog server is the same as the Hive metastore. See Hive Metastore Administration for metastore configuration properties. For Hive releases prior to 0.11.0, see the "Thrift Server Setup" section in the HCatalog 0.5.0 document Installation from Tarball for information about setting the Hive metastore configuration properties.

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