title: Can I use Hive on Azure Databricks without Hadoop/HDInsight?
body: <p><a href="https://docs.databricks.com/user-guide/advanced/external-hive-metastore.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Docs</a> says "Every Databricks deployment has a central Hive metastore..." besides an external metastore for existing Hive installations.</p>
  
  <p>I have an Azure Databricks workspace with an underlying spark cluster, and a datafiles stored on DBFS and Blob Storage. Do I need HDInsight cluster with external metastore to be able to create and use Hive tables? Or can I use the above mentioned central metastore to create Hive tables on data stored on DBFS or Blob storage?</p>