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HCatalog Configuration Properties

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, and see HCatalog Installation from Tarball for additional information about HCatalog installation.

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 propertiesFor HCatalog configuration, see Thrift Server Setup in the HCatalog manual.

WebHCat Configuration Properties

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