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Default file format for CREATE TABLE statement. Options are TextFile, SequenceFile, RCfile, ORC, and ORCParquet.

Users can explicitly say CREATE TABLE ... STORED AS TEXTFILE|SEQUENCEFILE|RCFILE|ORC|AVRO|INPUTFORMAT...OUTPUTFORMAT... to override. (RCFILE was added in Hive 0.6.0, ORC in 0.11.0, and AVRO in 0.14.0, and Parquet in 2.3.0) See Row Format, Storage Format, and SerDe for details.

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Default file format for CREATE TABLE statement applied to managed tables only. External tables will be created with format specified by hive.default.fileformat. Options are none, TextFile, SequenceFile, RCfile, ORC, and Parquet. Leaving this null will result in using hive.default.fileformat for all native tables. For non-native tables the file format is determined by the storage handler, as shown below (see the StorageHandlers section for more information on managed/external and native/non-native terminology).

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