Hive Tables

There are two type of Tables available in Hive Data warehouse.

1. Internal Table

  • All the meta definition are maintained by Hive
  • Actual Data resides on Hive Data warehouse.

Steps to load: We can directly load data to table

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2. External Table

  • All the meta definition are maintained by Hive
  • Actual Data resides on HDFS.

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