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reachkarthikt · ‎02-10-2016

Hello, DW guy learning hadoop.

I wanted to understand what are the full list of TBLPROPERTIES that are predefined in Hive and available for use? Couldnt find it in the Hive Manual. Thanks for the help

nsabharwal · ‎02-10-2016

@KARTHIK THYAGARAJAN

See this https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL

The TBLPROPERTIES clause allows you to tag the table definition with your own metadata key/value pairs. Some predefined table properties also exist, such as last_modified_user and last_modified_time which are automatically added and managed by Hive. Other predefined table properties include:

TBLPROPERTIES ("comment"="table_comment")
TBLPROPERTIES ("hbase.table.name"="table_name") – see HBase Integration.
TBLPROPERTIES ("immutable"="true") or ("immutable"="false") in release 0.13.0+ (HIVE-6406) – see Inserting Data into Hive Tables from Queries.
TBLPROPERTIES ("orc.compress"="ZLIB") or ("orc.compress"="SNAPPY") or ("orc.compress"="NONE") and other ORC properties – see ORC Files.
TBLPROPERTIES ("transactional"="true") or ("transactional"="false") in release 0.14.0+, the default is "false" – see Hive Transactions.
TBLPROPERTIES ("NO_AUTO_COMPACTION"="true") or ("NO_AUTO_COMPACTION"="false"), the default is "false" – see Hive Transactions.
TBLPROPERTIES ("auto.purge"="true") or ("auto.purge"="false") in release 1.2.0+ (HIVE-9118) – see Drop Table and Drop Partitions.

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aervits · ‎02-10-2016

@KARTHIK THYAGARAJAN

You can read the source code https://github.com/apache/hive/tree/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql

reachkarthikt · ‎02-10-2016

@Artem Ervits - this is the way then, Thank you! - I will explore further now.

wzheng · ‎04-15-2016

As far as I understand, tblproperties is just a list of key/value pairs. You can specify whatever you want on it (even if it's not predefined, e.g. 'weather'='warm'). But of course there must be code logic that interprets your tblproperties and do something, otherwise it's useless.

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