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Version: 3.1

SHOW DATABASES

Description​

Views databases in your current StarRocks cluster or an external data source. StarRocks supports viewing databases of an external data source from v2.3 onwards.

Syntax​

SHOW DATABASES [FROM <catalog_name>]

Parameters​

ParameterRequiredDescription
catalog_nameNoThe name of the internal catalog or an external catalog.
  • If you do not specify the parameter or specify the name of the internal catalog, which is default_catalog, you can view databases in your current StarRocks cluster.
  • If you set the value of the parameter to the name of an external catalog, you can view databases in the corresponding external data source. You can run SHOW CATALOGS to view internal and external catalogs.

Examples​

Example 1: View databases in your current StarRocks cluster.

SHOW DATABASES;

Or

SHOW DATABASES FROM default_catalog;

The output of the preceding statements is as follows.

+----------+
| Database |
+----------+
| db1      |
| db2      |
| db3      |
+----------+

Example 2: View databases in a Hive cluster by using the Hive1 external catalog.

SHOW DATABASES FROM hive1;

+-----------+
| Database  |
+-----------+
| hive_db1  |
| hive_db2  |
| hive_db3  |
+-----------+

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