https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Can-Hadoop-Hive-support-data-access-over-a-REST-API-Any/m-p/119772#M82550 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/2348/divakarreddya.html" nodeid="2348">@Divakar Annapureddy</A><P> yes via WebHCAT and WebHDFS</P><PRE># this will execute a hive query and save result to hdfs file in your home directory called output curl -s -d execute="select+*+from+sample_08;" \ -d statusdir="output" \ 'http://localhost:50111/templeton/v1/hive?user.name=root' # if you ls on the directory, it will have two files, stderr and stdout hdfs dfs -ls output # if the job succeeded, you can cat the stdout file and view the results hdfs dfs -cat output/stdout WebHDFS # list the output directory, notice the webhdfs port curl -i "http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/output/?op=LISTSTATUS" # read the output file curl -i -L "http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/output/stdout?op=OPEN" # rename a file, if you get dr. who error, add &amp;user.name=root or any other user in the context curl -i -X PUT "sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/output/stdout?op=RENAME&amp;user.name=root&amp;destination=/user/root/newname" # read the output of the new file curl -i -L "http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/newname?op=OPEN"</PRE> Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:08:16 GMT aervits 2017-02-23T00:08:16Z