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See Statistics in Hive for information about how to collect and use Hive table, partition, and column statistics. 

hive.stats.dbclass

• Default Value: jdbc:derby (Hive 0.7 to 0.12) or fs (Hive 0.13 and later)
• Added In: Hive 0.7 with HIVE-1361
• New Values: counter and custom added in 0.13 with HIVE-4632 and fs added in 0.13 with HIVE-6500

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Hive 0.13 and later:  The storage that stores temporary Hive statistics. In filesystem based statistics collection ("fs"), each task writes statistics it has collected in a file on the filesystem, which will be aggregated after the job has finished. Supported values are fs (filesystem), jdbc:<database> where  (where <database> can be derby, mysql, etc.), hbase, counter, and custom as defined in StatsSetupConst.java.

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