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[Hadoop Wiki] Update of "Hive/AdminManual/MetastoreAdmin" by JohnSichi

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  === Introduction ===
  
  All the metadata for Hive tables and partitions are stored in Hive Metastore. Metadata is persisted using [[http://www.datanucleus.org/|JPOX]] ORM solution so any store that is supported by it. Most of the commercial relational databases and many open source datstores are supported. Any datastore that has JDBC driver can probably be used.
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+ You can find an E/R diagram for the metastore [[https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12471108/HiveMetaStore.pdf|here]].
  
  There are 3 different ways to setup metastore server using different Hive configurations. The relevant configuration parameters are