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Connect to HiveServer2 with a kerberized JDBC client (Squirrel)

Squirrel work with kerberos, however, if you don't want kerberos then you don't need the JAVA_OPTS changes at the end. My colleague, Chris Conner, has created a maven project that pulls down all of the dependencies for a JDBC program: https://github.com/cmconner156/hiveserver2-jdbc-kerberos Note for kerberos environment, you need to kinit before using Squirrel. The above program handles kinit for you. If you are not using Kerberos and you want to use the above program, then comment out the following lines: System.setProperty("java.security.auth.login.config","gss-jaas.conf"); System.setProperty("javax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly","false"); System.setProperty("java.security.krb5.conf","krb5.conf"); Then make sure to change the jdbc URI to not have the principal. Also, it's worth mentioning that if you use kerberos, I did have some issues with differing java versions. So try matching y