Hi, AFAIK, HIVE will use the derby for storing the metadata.
I am not expert in HIVE, but i can give the some info. HIVE will store the table and hdfs path mappings ralated information in Derby. I think you can configure other DBs as well but by default Hive supports derby Regards, Uma ----- Original Message ----- From: JSaravanaKumar <saravana.had...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 3:44 pm Subject: Architectural Questions To: core-...@hadoop.apache.org > > can you please help me in understanding Why Derby is used along > with Hadoop ? > -- > View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Architectural- > Questions-tp32224940p32224940.html > Sent from the Hadoop core-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
