'Hive metastore - table statistics

Is there any way to get table statistics information from Hive metastore so that I can use it for processing via an api? I found two ways to get statistics,

  1. Meta tool client
  2. API - IMetastoreClient interface

Can anyone tell me the difference between these two? or is there any other way to access it



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