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HCatalog is a table and storage management layer for Hadoop that enables users with different data processing tools — Pig, MapReduce — to more easily read and write data on the grid.

This is the HCatalog manual.  

• Using HCatalog
• Installation from Tarball
• HCatalog Configuration Properties

This is the HCatalog Manual. It includes all of the chapters from the HCatalog 0.5.0 documentation converted to wiki format and updated where appropriate.

• Overview
• Installation from Tarball
• Load and Store Interfaces
• Input and Output Interfaces
• Reader and Writer Interfaces
• Command Line Interface
• Storage Formats
• Dynamic Partitioning
• Notification
• Storage Based Authorization

The old HCatalog wiki page has many other documents including additional user documentation, further information on HBase integration, and resources for contributors.

For information about the REST API for HCatalog, WebHCat (formerly Templeton), see the WebHCat Manual.At the end of each chapter, navigation links connect to the original HCatalog 0.5.0 chapter on the Hive site (http://hive.apache.org/), the next and previous chapters, this page, the WebHCat page, and the Hive wiki home page.