I created a hack to solve this problem.   In the ConvertJSONtoSQL processor I put table name = personal information.  Notice the space.  This generated the sql like so: insert into personal information <snipped>   Then using a ReplaceTextProcessor I did a find and replace so such that the sql inserts were converted to the following: insert into `personal information` <snipped>   This works but is very hacky...would love to see the correct way to get the back ticks to work ... View more

(@Sarath Subramanian Thanks for your help on this!) Version number is primarily used for patch updates to existing data types. On master, note the patches directory under addons/models/1000-Hadoop/patches AtlasTypeDefSoreInitializer.loadBootstrapTypeDefs (repository/store/bootstrap/AtlasTypeDefStoreInitializer.java) scans this directory and updates type definitions based on the version. In short, it is used for maintenance of types. Beyond this, version is NOT used internally for validation, etc. ... View more