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The hbase.columns.mapping property is required and will be explained in the next section. The hbase.table.name property is optional; it controls the name of the table as known by HBase, and allows the Hive table to have a different name. In this example, the table is known as hbase_table_1 within Hive, and as xyz within HBase. If not specified, then the Hive and HBase table names will be identical. The hbase.mapred.output.outputtable property is optional; it's needed if you plan to insert data to the table (the property is used by hbaseby hbase.mapreduce.TableOutputFormat)

After executing the command above, you should be able to see the new (empty) table in the HBase shell:

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