https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Beeline-Configuration-hiveconf-Equivalent/m-p/163358#M125732 <P>you can use set hive.execution.engine=tez; while in a session or beeline --hiveconf hive.execution.engine=tez should work. what version of hive are you using? Are you setting any other value for --hiveconf?</P><P>Another option is the sel set hive.execution.engine=tez; inside your hive script or have --hivevar has parameter into your hive script to set execution engine</P><P>beeline -u jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000 -n xxxx -p xxxx -f /home/hdfs/scripts/hive/myscript.hql --hivevar engine=tez</P><P>Then use ${engine} variable inside your script.</P> Tue, 20 Dec 2016 05:04:16 GMT sunile_manjee 2016-12-20T05:04:16Z