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This page provides information on Apache Hive's conformance to the current SQL standarddocuments which parts of the SQL standard are supported by Apache Hive. The information here is not a full statement of conformance but provides users detail sufficient to generally understand Hive's level of SQL conformance.

SQL Conformance This information is versioned by Hive release version, allowing a user to quickly identify features available to them.

The formal name of the current SQL standard is ISO/IEC 9075 "Database Language SQL". A revised version of the standard is released from time to time; the most recent update appearing in 20112016. The 2011 2016 version is referred to as ISO/IEC 9075:20112016, or simply as SQL:20112016. Hive's SQL Conformance pages reference SQL features by the Feature ID values of the SQL:2011 2016 Standard.

Information in these pages is not guaranteed to be accurate. Corrections can be submitted to the Apache Hive mailing list at user@hive.apache.org.