HCatalog Tutorial

What is HCatalog?

HCatalog is a table storage management tool for Hadoop that exposes the tabular data of Hive metastore to other Hadoop applications. It provides users with wide range of data processing tools like Pig, MapReduce to write data onto a grid. HCatalog provides sophisticated data format to store their data.

Audience

HCatalog tutorial is designed for the professionals who want to make a career in Big Data Analytics using Hadoop Framework. ETL developers and analytics professionals may go through this tutorial for good effect.

Prerequisites

To start this tutorial, one must have a basic knowledge of Core Java, Database concepts of SQL, Hadoop File system, and any of Linux operating system flavors.