https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Error-starting-HIVE-metastore/m-p/209319#M171273 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/87334/harryli.html" nodeid="87334">@Harry Li</A><P>Looks like still Hive is unable to connect to mysql database - can you manually connect and check? use the below command to connect.</P><PRE><CODE>mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -h HOSTNAMEORIP DATABASENAME </CODE></PRE> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 02:00:30 GMT apappu 2018-08-02T02:00:30Z