Hive meta store is a critical component in the interception of | L̶u̵m̶i̵n̷o̴u̶s̶m̶e̵n̵B̶l̵o̵g̵

Hive meta store is a critical component in the interception of all query engines path provides a virtualization layer between the storage and compute. What makes Hive Metastore so special?

This article attempts to describe some of them and says that the Hive metastore is not going anywhere in the near future.