THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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All the metadata for Hive tables and partitions are stored in Hive Metastore. Metadata is persisted using JPOX ORM solution so any store that is supported by it can be used by Hive. Most of the commercial relational databases and many open source datstores are supported. Any datastore that has a JDBC driver can probably be used.
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