CREATE [TEMPORARY] [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name -- (Note: TEMPORARY available in Hive 0.14.0 and later) [(col_name data_type [column_constraint_specification] [COMMENT col_comment], ... [constraint_specification])] [COMMENT table_comment] [PARTITIONED BY (col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)] [CLUSTERED BY (col_name, col_name, ...) [SORTED BY (col_name [ASC|DESC], ...)] INTO num_buckets BUCKETS] [SKEWED BY (col_name, col_name, ...) -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.10.0 and later)] ON ((col_value, col_value, ...), (col_value, col_value, ...), ...) [STORED AS DIRECTORIES] [ [ROW FORMAT row_format] [STORED AS file_format] | STORED BY 'storage.handler.class.name' [WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (...)] -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.6.0 and later) ] [LOCATION hdfs_path] [TBLPROPERTIES (property_name=property_value, ...)] -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.6.0 and later) [AS select_statement]; -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.5.0 and later; not supported for external tables) CREATE [TEMPORARY] [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name LIKE existing_table_or_view_name [LOCATION hdfs_path]; data_type : primitive_type | array_type | map_type | struct_type | union_type -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.7.0 and later) primitive_type : TINYINT | SMALLINT | INT | BIGINT | BOOLEAN | FLOAT | DOUBLE | DOUBLE PRECISION -- (Note: Available in Hive 2.2.0 and later) | STRING | BINARY -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.8.0 and later) | TIMESTAMP -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.8.0 and later) | DECIMAL -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.11.0 and later) | DECIMAL(precision, scale) -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.13.0 and later) | DATE -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.12.0 and later) | VARCHAR -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.12.0 and later) | CHAR -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.13.0 and later) array_type : ARRAY < data_type > map_type : MAP < primitive_type, data_type > struct_type : STRUCT < col_name : data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...> union_type : UNIONTYPE < data_type, data_type, ... > -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.7.0 and later) row_format : DELIMITED [FIELDS TERMINATED BY char [ESCAPED BY char]] [COLLECTION ITEMS TERMINATED BY char] [MAP KEYS TERMINATED BY char] [LINES TERMINATED BY char] [NULL DEFINED AS char] -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.13 and later) | SERDE serde_name [WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (property_name=property_value, property_name=property_value, ...)] file_format: : SEQUENCEFILE | TEXTFILE -- (Default, depending on hive.default.fileformat configuration) | RCFILE -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.6.0 and later) | ORC -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.11.0 and later) | PARQUET -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.13.0 and later) | AVRO -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.14.0 and later) | JSONFILE -- (Note: Available in Hive 4.0.0 and later) | INPUTFORMAT input_format_classname OUTPUTFORMAT output_format_classname column_constraint_specification: : [ PRIMARY KEY|UNIQUE|NOT NULL|DEFAULT [default_value]|CHECK [check_expression] ENABLE|DISABLE NOVALIDATE RELY/NORELY ] default_value: : [ LITERAL|CURRENT_USER()|CURRENT_DATE()|CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()|NULL ] constraint_specification: : [, PRIMARY KEY (col_name, ...) DISABLE NOVALIDATE RELY/NORELY ] [, PRIMARY KEY (col_name, ...) DISABLE NOVALIDATE RELY/NORELY ] [, CONSTRAINT constraint_name FOREIGN KEY (col_name, ...) REFERENCES table_name(col_name, ...) DISABLE NOVALIDATE [, CONSTRAINT constraint_name UNIQUE (col_name, ...) DISABLE NOVALIDATE RELY/NORELY ] [, CONSTRAINT constraint_name CHECK [check_expression] ENABLE|DISABLE NOVALIDATE RELY/NORELY ]