What is the role of the IBM Hive Metastore built into watsonx.data?
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watsonx.data includes a built-in IBM Hive Metastore that acts as the central metadata store; all registered engines (Presto; Spark) reference it to resolve table schemas and file locations.
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watsonx.data includes a built-in IBM Hive Metastore that acts as the central metadata store; all registered engines (Presto; Spark) reference it to resolve table schemas and file locations. The incorrect options ("To execute Hive MapReduce jobs on data stored in object storage", "To provide encryption-at-rest for all data files in IBM Cloud Object Storage", "To act as the Presto coordinator scheduling query fragments across worker nodes") are distractors that don't fully capture the concept described.