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# CreateCatalogRequest

> CreateCatalogRequest — Kinetica TypeScript API

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  <div className="tsd-signature"><span className="tsd-signature-keyword">interface</span> <span className="tsd-kind-interface">CreateCatalogRequest</span> <span className="tsd-signature-symbol">{"{"}</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#credential">credential</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#datasource">datasource</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#location">location</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#name">name</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#options">options</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">?:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">Record</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">\<</span><span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">,</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">></span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#table_format">table\_format</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#type">type</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">{"}"}</span></div>

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      <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1442">src/types.ts:1442</a></li>
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            <h3 className="tsd-index-heading tsd-anchor-link" id="properties">Properties</h3>
            <div className="tsd-index-list"><a href="#credential" className="tsd-index-link"><span>credential</span></a> <a href="#datasource" className="tsd-index-link"><span>datasource</span></a> <a href="#location" className="tsd-index-link"><span>location</span></a> <a href="#name" className="tsd-index-link"><span>name</span></a> <a href="#options" className="tsd-index-link"><span>options?</span></a> <a href="#table_format" className="tsd-index-link"><span>table\_format</span></a> <a href="#type" className="tsd-index-link"><span>type</span></a> </div>
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        <h3 className="tsd-anchor-link" id="credential"><span>credential</span></h3>
        <div className="tsd-signature"><span className="tsd-kind-property">credential</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span></div>

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          <p>Name of the credential object to be used in catalog.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1452">src/types.ts:1452</a></li>
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        <div className="tsd-signature"><span className="tsd-kind-property">datasource</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span></div>

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          <p>Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1454">src/types.ts:1454</a></li>
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          <p>Location of the catalog in 'http\[s]://\[server\[:port]]]' format.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1448">src/types.ts:1448</a></li>
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        <h3 className="tsd-anchor-link" id="name"><span>name</span></h3>
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          <p>Name of the catalog to be created.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1444">src/types.ts:1444</a></li>
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          <p>Optional parameters.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1456">src/types.ts:1456</a></li>
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          <p>Table format (iceberg, hudi, deltalake).</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1446">src/types.ts:1446</a></li>
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          <p>Type of the catalog (REST (unity, polaris, tabular), nessie, hive, glue).</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1450">src/types.ts:1450</a></li>
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