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Hive Metastore (HMS)

A central repository of table definitions, schemas, partitions and file locations used by Hive, Spark and other engines.

Definition

In Databricks, the legacy workspace-level hive_metastore catalog is superseded by Unity Catalog's account-level governance. Dataproc Metastore provides a managed HMS on Google Cloud.

Exam tip

Databricks exams expect migration from hive_metastore to Unity Catalog.

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