public sealed class BackendMetastore : IMessage<BackendMetastore>, IEquatable<BackendMetastore>, IDeepCloneable<BackendMetastore>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Dataproc Metastore v1alpha API class BackendMetastore.
Represents a backend metastore for the federation.
The relative resource name of the metastore that is being federated.
The formats of the relative resource names for the currently supported
metastores are listed below:
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