HCatalog

This is the HCatalog Manual. It includes all of the chapters from the HCatalog 0.5.0 documentation converted to wiki format and updated where appropriate.

• Overview
• Installation from Tarball
• Load and Store Interfaces
• Input and Output Interfaces
• Reader and Writer Interfaces
• Command Line Interface
• Storage Formats
• Dynamic Partitioning
• Notification
• Storage Based Authorization

For information about the REST API for HCatalog, WebHCat (formerly Templeton), see the WebHCat Manual.

At the end of each chapter, navigation links connect to the original HCatalog 0.5.0 chapter on the Hive site (http://hive.apache.org/), the next and previous chapters, this page, the WebHCat page, and the Hive wiki home page.