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package com.facebook.presto.hive;

import com.facebook.presto.hive.metastore.HiveMetastoreClient;

/**
 * A Hive cluster is a single logical installation of Hive. It might
 * have multiple instances of the metastore service (for scalability
 * purposes), but they would all return the same data.
 * <p/>
 * This Hive plugin only supports having a single Hive cluster per
 * instantiation of the plugin, but a plugin that extends this code
 * could support multiple, dynamically located Hive clusters.
 */
public interface HiveCluster
{
    /**
     * Create a connected {@link HiveMetastoreClient} to this HiveCluster
     */
    HiveMetastoreClient createMetastoreClient();
}