---
type: resource-type
title: GlueDatabase
description: aws resource type AWS::Glue::Database
name: GlueDatabase
lexicon: aws
resource_type: AWS::Glue::Database
---
`AWS::Glue::Database`, a resource type of the aws lexicon.

## Properties

- `CatalogId` (`string`, required): The AWS account ID for the account in which to create the catalog object.
- `DatabaseInput` (`GlueDatabase_DatabaseInput`, required): The metadata for the database.
- `DatabaseName` (`string`, optional): The name of the database. For hive compatibility, this is folded to lowercase when it is store.