title: Hive Binary and String Datatype
body: <p>Is there any max limit for the binary and String data type on Hive. The idea is to able to store data larger than 4 GB. Oracle supports till 8 TB of data in a CLOB data type column. DO we have a similar storage capacity through Hive.</p>
  
  <p>The format I'm using to store the data on hdfs is parquet and to store the string/binary data I it uses bytearray datatype along with annotations. How do I know the max limit for the bytearray datatype of parquet format. </p>
  
  <p>In the doc it state that the byte array can be of arbitrary length. So does it mean I can store data up to 8 TB or more than that.</p>