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title: “Hudi catalog” slug: /lakehouse-hudi-catalog keywords:

• lakehouse
• hudi
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Introduction

Apache Gravitino provides the ability to manage Apache Hudi metadata.

Requirements and limitations

:::info Tested and verified with Apache Hudi 0.15.0. :::

Catalog

Catalog capabilities

• Works as a catalog proxy, supporting HMS as catalog backend.
• Only support read operations (list and load) for Hudi schemas and tables.
• Doesn't support timeline management operations now.

Catalog properties

Property name	Description	Default value	Required	Since Version
catalog-backend	Catalog backend of Gravitino Hudi catalog. Only supports hms now.	(none)	Yes	0.7.0-incubating
uri	The URI associated with the backend. Such as thrift://127.0.0.1:9083 for HMS backend.	(none)	Yes	0.7.0-incubating
client.pool-size	For HMS backend. The maximum number of Hive metastore clients in the pool for Gravitino.	1	No	0.7.0-incubating
client.pool-cache.eviction-interval-ms	For HMS backend. The cache pool eviction interval.	300000	No	0.7.0-incubating
gravitino.bypass.	Property name with this prefix passed down to the underlying backend client for use. Such as gravitino.bypass.hive.metastore.failure.retries = 3 indicate 3 times of retries upon failure of Thrift metastore calls for HMS backend.	(none)	No	0.7.0-incubating

Catalog backend security

Users can use the following properties to configure the security of the catalog backend if needed. For example, if you are using a Kerberos Hive catalog backend, you must set authentication.type to Kerberos and provide authentication.kerberos.principal and authentication.kerberos.keytab-uri.

Property name	Description	Default value	Required	Since Version
authentication.type	The type of authentication for hudi catalog backend. This configuration only applicable for for hms backend, and only supports kerberos, simple currently.	simple	No	1.0.0
authentication.impersonation-enable	Whether to enable impersonation for the hudi catalog	false	No	1.0.0
authentication.kerberos.principal	The principal of the Kerberos authentication	(none)	required if the value of authentication.type is kerberos.	1.0.0
authentication.kerberos.keytab-uri	The URI of The keytab for the Kerberos authentication.	(none)	required if the value of authentication.type is kerberos.	1.0.0
authentication.kerberos.check-interval-sec	The check interval of Kerberos credential for hudi catalog.	60	No	1.0.0
authentication.kerberos.keytab-fetch-timeout-sec	The fetch timeout of retrieving Kerberos keytab from authentication.kerberos.keytab-uri.	60	No	1.0.0

Property name with this prefix passed down to the underlying backend client for use. Such as gravitino.bypass.hive.metastore.kerberos.principal=XXXX、gravitino.bypass.hadoop.security.authentication=kerberos、gravitino.bypass.hive.metastore.sasl.enabled=ture And so on.

Catalog operations

Please refer to Manage Relational Metadata Using Gravitino for more details.

Schema

Schema capabilities

• Only support read operations: listSchema, loadSchema, and schemaExists.

Schema properties

• The Location is an optional property that shows the storage path to the Hudi database

Schema operations

Only support read operations: listSchema, loadSchema, and schemaExists. Please refer to Manage Relational Metadata Using Gravitino for more details.

Table

Table capabilities

• Only support read operations: listTable, loadTable, and tableExists.

Table partitions

• Support loading Hudi partitioned tables (Hudi only supports identity partitioning).

Table sort orders

• Doesn't support table sort orders.

Table distributions

• Doesn't support table distributions.

Table indexes

• Doesn't support table indexes.

Table properties

• For HMS backend, it will bring out all the table parameters from the HMS.

Table column types

The following table shows the mapping between Gravitino and Apache Hudi column types:

Gravitino Type	Apache Hudi Type
boolean	boolean
integer	int
long	long
date	date
timestamp	timestamp
float	float
double	double
string	string
decimal	decimal
binary	bytes
array	array
map	map
struct	struct

Table operations

Only support read operations: listTable, loadTable, and tableExists. Please refer to Manage Relational Metadata Using Gravitino for more details.