Adds this column to the hive schema.
Adds this column to the hive schema. This is schema evolution. The column must be marked as nullable and cannot have the same name as an existing column.
Creates a new partition in Hive in the given database.table.
Creates a new partition in Hive in the given database.table. The location of the partition must be specified. If you want to use the default location then use the other variant that doesn't require the location path. The values for the serialization formats are taken from the values for the table.
Creates a new partition in Hive in the given database.table in the default location, which will be a subdirectory of the table location.
Creates a new partition in Hive in the given database.table in the default location, which will be a subdirectory of the table location. The supplied partition path strategy will be used to generate the partition name.
Returns hive API partitions for the given dbName:tableName
Returns hive API partitions for the given dbName:tableName
In Hive, a partition is a set
Returns the hive FieldSchema's for partition columns.
Returns the hive FieldSchema's for partition columns. Hive calls these "partition partitionKeys"
Returns a map of all partition keys to the distinct values.
Returns a map of all partition keys to the distinct values. This operation is optimized, in that it does not need to scan files, but can retrieve the information directly from the hive metastore.
Returns all partition values for a given partition key.
Returns all partition values for a given partition key. This operation is optimized, in that it does not need to scan files, but can retrieve the information directly from the hive metastore.