https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hive-rest-api-cannot-query-tables/m-p/135202#M97861 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/2508/klksrinivas.html" nodeid="2508">@Krishna Srinivas</A> try webhcat</P><P><STRONG>curl -s -d execute="select+*+from+sample_08;" \</STRONG></P><P><STRONG> -d statusdir="output" \</STRONG></P><P><STRONG> '</STRONG><A href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://localhost:50111/templeton/v1/hive?user.name%253Droot%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1455100112181000%26amp;usg%3DAFQjCNEQQkcm3_W8zU62PTvsJseSvv8TVA&amp;sa=D&amp;ust=1455100112194000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEOqpdYMRK8eENaGWTV9DwlMpU02Q">http://localhost:50111/templeton/v1/hive?user.name=root</A><STRONG>'</STRONG></P><P># if you ls on the directory, it will have two files, stderr and stdout</P><P><STRONG>hdfs dfs -ls output</STRONG></P><P># if the job succeeded, you can cat the stdout file and view the results</P><P><STRONG>hdfs dfs -cat output/stdout </STRONG></P> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:27:50 GMT aervits 2016-02-10T17:27:50Z