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# /create/catalog

```
URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/create/catalog
```

Creates a catalog, which contains the location and connection information for a
deltalake catalog that is external to the database.

## Input Parameter Description

<ParamField body="name" type="string">
  Name of the catalog to be created.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="table_format" type="string">
  Table format (iceberg, hudi, deltalake).
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="location" type="string">
  Location of the catalog in 'http\[s]://\[server\[:port]]]' format.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="type" type="string">
  Type of the catalog (REST (unity, polaris, tabular), nessie, hive, glue).
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="credential" type="string">
  Name of the [credential](../../concepts/credentials) object to be used in catalog.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="datasource" type="string">
  Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="options" type="map of string to strings">
  Optional parameters.

  The default value is an empty map ( \{} ).

  <Expandable title="options">
    <ParamField body="access_delegation">
      Use access delegation for object store.

      The default value is `datasource_credentials`.

      The supported values are:

      * datasource\_credentials
      * vended\_credentials
    </ParamField>

    <ParamField body="skip_validation">
      Bypass validation of connection to remote source.

      The default value is `false`.

      The supported values are:

      * true
      * false
    </ParamField>
  </Expandable>
</ParamField>

## Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query.  Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

<ResponseField name="status" type="String">
  'OK' or 'ERROR'
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="message" type="String">
  Empty if success or an error message
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_type" type="String">
  'create\_catalog\_response' or 'none' in case of an error
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data" type="String">
  Empty string
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_str" type="JSON or String">
  This embedded JSON represents the result of the /create/catalog endpoint:

  <Expandable title="data_str">
    <ResponseField name="name" type="string">
      Value of input parameter *name*.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="info" type="map of string to strings">
      Additional information.
    </ResponseField>
  </Expandable>

  Empty string in case of an error.
</ResponseField>