Autoscaling is slow with an external metastore

Improve autoscaling performance by only installing metastore jars to the driver....

Data too long for column error

If a column exceeds 4000 characters it is too big for the default datatype and returns an error....

Drop database without deletion

Use Hive commands to drop a database without deleting the underlying storage folder....

Error in CREATE TABLE with external Hive metastore

CREATE TABLE error with MySQL 8.0 in external Hive metastore due to charset....

Japanese character support in external metastore

Use Japanese characters in tables in an external metastore....

Parquet timestamp requires Hive metastore 1.2 or above

Update the Hive metastore to version 1.2 or above to use TIMESTAMP with a Parquet table....