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Data Lake Formation:StorageDescriptor

Last Updated:Sep 08, 2025
ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object

StorageDescriptor

BucketColsListString

The array of bucket fields.

Colsarray

All the fields in a table.

FieldSchema

The definitions of table fields.

Compressedboolean

Specifies whether to enable compression.

false
InputFormatstring

The input format. For more information, see the API description of CreateTable.

org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat
Locationstring

The physical location of the table.

file:///tmp/table
NumBucketsinteger

The number of buckets to be split. This field is required if BucketCols is set.

10
OutputFormatstring

The output format. For more information, see the API description of CreateTable.

org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat
Parametersobject

The mapping array of KVPs.

string

Key-value pair

key
SerDeInfoSerDeInfo

The information about serialization and deserialization.

SkewedInfoSkewedInfo

The duplicate values or skewed values in a field.

SortColsarray

The sort fields.

Order

The field based on which the categories are sorted.

StoredAsSubDirectoriesboolean

Specifies whether table data is stored in a subdirectory.

false