What is Metastore in Hive

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I have heard this term lotta times but cannot make out what exactly is this?
Dec 20, 2018 in Big Data Hadoop by Neha
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It stores metadata for Hive tables (like their schema and location) and partitions in a relational database. It provides client access to this information by using metastoreservice API. Hive metastore consists of two fundamental units: A service that provides metastore access to other Apache Hive services.

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