About the Hive metastore collector

Use this collector to harvest metadata for Hive metastore tables and columns across the enterprise systems and make it searchable and discoverable in data.world.

Important

The Hive metastore collector can be run on-premise using Docker or Jar files.

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.252. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.

What is cataloged

The collector catalogs the following information.

Table 1.

Object	Information cataloged
Columns	Name, Description, JDBC type, Column Type, Is Nullable, Default Value, Key type (Primary, Foreign), Column size, Column index
Table	Name, Description, Primary key, Schema
Views	Name, description
Schema	Identifier
Database	Type, Name, Identifier, Server, Port, Environment, JDBC URL

Relationships between objects

By default, the harvested metadata includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. If the metadata presentation for this data source has been customized with the help of the data.world Solutions team, you may see other resource pages and relationships.