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CREATE CATALOG

Description​

Creates a new catalog.

Note that the SQL statement does not end with ;

Syntax​

CREATE CATALOG <name>
    TYPE = { 'GLUE' | 'HIVE' | 'BIGQUERY' | 'DATAHUB' | 'ONETABLE' | 'DATAPROC' | 'UNITY' }
    [ CREDENTIAL_TYPE = { 'CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ONEHOUSE' | 'CREDENTIAL_TYPE_SECRET_MANAGER' } ]
    WITH 'key1' = 'value1', 'key2' = 'value2' ....

Required parameters​

  • <name>: Identifier for the catalog
    • Must be unique for your account
    • Must start with an alphabetic character and cannot contain spaces or special characters unless the entire identifier string is enclosed in double quotes (e.g. "Staging Catalog")
    • Case-sensitive
  • TYPE: Specifies the type of the catalog to be created.

Optional parameters​

  • CREDENTIAL_TYPE: Credential Management Type. Refer Credential Management to read more.
    • CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ONEHOUSE: Credentials get stored in onehouse control-plane.
    • CREDENTIAL_TYPE_SECRET_MANAGER: Credentials are stored in customer dataplane, users need to create the secret and share the cloud specific secret identifier.
    • Applicable only in case of datahub catalog.
    • Default: CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ONEHOUSE.

Special parameters​

Include special parameters after WITH as type String.

IF TYPE IS HIVE OR DATAPROC​

  • hive.catalog.servers - Server information of hive catalogs. Specify values like 'hive.catalog.servers' = 'server1' or 'hive.catalog.servers' = 'server1, server2' depending upon single or multiple servers.

IF TYPE IS BIGQUERY​

  • bq.project.id - Google Cloud Project Name where BigQuery is to be Synced.
  • bq.require.partition.filter - Require partition filtering when users query the table from BigQuery.
  • bq.big.lake.connection.enabled - Set to true to set up a BigLake connection for the table

IF TYPE IS DATAHUB​

  • datahub.server.url - Server URL of the DataHub.
  • datahub.data.platform.name - Identifier to represent Hudi when creating its corresponding DataPlatform entity within Datahub.
  • datahub.dataset.environment - Environment to use when pushing entities to Datahub.

If CREDENTIAL_TYPE is CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ONEHOUSE (Default):​

  • datahub.auth.token - Auth token to connect to the DataHub.

If CREDENTIAL_TYPE is CREDENTIAL_TYPE_SECRET_MANAGER:​

  • datahub.auth.token.reference - Cloud specific identifier (e.g., ARN for AWS) of a secret containing the authtoken in specified format.

IF TYPE IS ONETABLE​

  • onetable.target.formats - Target formats to sync Hudi table to. Valid values are 'delta', 'iceberg' and 'delta, iceberg'.

IF TYPE IS UNITY​

  • unity.databricks.host - Host URL of the Databricks compute resource
  • unity.http.path - HTTP Path of the Databricks compute resource
  • unity.auth.token - personal-access-token of the databricks workspace
  • unity.catalog.name - Catalog name in the databricks to be synced

Example​

Example syntax for creating a GLUE CATALOG.

CREATE CATALOG my_glue_catalog TYPE = 'glue'

Example syntax for creating a HIVE CATALOG.

CREATE CATALOG my_hive_catalog TYPE = 'hive' WITH 'hive.catalog.servers' = 'server1,server2'

Example syntax for creating a BIGQUERY CATALOG.

CREATE CATALOG my_bigquery_catalog TYPE = 'bigquery' WITH 'bq.require.partition.filter' = 'true', 
      'bq.project.id' = 'my-project', 'bq.big.lake.connection.enabled' = 'false'

Example syntax for creating a DATAHUB CATALOG.

CREATE CATALOG my_datahub_catalog TYPE = 'datahub' WITH 'datahub.server.url' = 'http://my.datahub.com', 
    'datahub.dataset.environment' = 'dev', 'datahub.auth.token' = 'example-auth-token', 
    'datahub.data.platform.name' = 'example-platform'

Example syntax for creating a ONETABLE CATALOG.

CREATE CATALOG my_onetable_catalog TYPE = 'onetable' WITH 'onetable.target.formats' = 'iceberg, delta'

Example syntax for creating a DATAPROC CATALOG.

CREATE CATALOG my_dataproc_catalog TYPE = 'dataproc' WITH 'hive.catalog.servers' = 'server1,server2'

Example syntax for creating a UNITY CATALOG.

CREATE CATALOG my_unity_catalog TYPE = 'unity' WITH 'unity.databricks.host' = 'https://my.cloud.databricks.com',
    'unity.http.path' = 'sql/1.0/warehouse/xyz', 'unity.auth.token' = 'example-auth-token', 'unity.catalog.name' = 'example-catalog-name'

Sample response