Database - AWS Glue

Database

The Database object represents a logical grouping of tables that might reside in a Hive metastore or an RDBMS.

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Name

The name of the database. For Hive compatibility, this is folded to lowercase when it is stored.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: Yes

CatalogId

The ID of the Data Catalog in which the database resides.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

CreateTableDefaultPermissions

Creates a set of default permissions on the table for principals. Used by AWS Lake Formation. Not used in the normal course of AWS Glue operations.

Type: Array of PrincipalPermissions objects

Required: No

CreateTime

The time at which the metadata database was created in the catalog.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Description

A description of the database.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: No

FederatedDatabase

A FederatedDatabase structure that references an entity outside the AWS Glue Data Catalog.

Type: FederatedDatabase object

Required: No

LocationUri

The location of the database (for example, an HDFS path).

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: No

Parameters

These key-value pairs define parameters and properties of the database.

Type: String to string map

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Key Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512000.

Required: No

TargetDatabase

A DatabaseIdentifier structure that describes a target database for resource linking.

Type: DatabaseIdentifier object

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: