When would you connect an external Hive Metastore to watsonx.data instead of using the built-in one?
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Connecting an external Hive Metastore allows watsonx.data to federate against existing table catalogs (e.g. from on-premises Hadoop clusters or other cloud deployments) without re-registering all table metadata.
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Full Explanation
Connecting an external Hive Metastore allows watsonx.data to federate against existing table catalogs (e.g. from on-premises Hadoop clusters or other cloud deployments) without re-registering all table metadata. The incorrect options ("When you want to store metadata in IBM Cloud Object Storage", "When Presto requires more than 10 concurrent queries", "When the built-in metastore does not support Iceberg table format") are distractors that don't fully capture the concept described.