Error When Executing Hive-Sample on CDH5.0.1

kksia — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:01:40 GMT

Hi,

I am having problem when tried to run samples from Hue WebUI. Was trying to execute Hive-Sample from the UI, and getting the error as below:

Kindly seek for help on the issue.

Unable to open a test connection to the given database. JDBC url = jdbc:derby:;databaseName=/var/lib/hive/metastore/metastore_db;create=true, username = APP. Terminating connection pool. Original Exception: ------
  java.sql.SQLException: Failed to create database '/var/lib/hive/metastore/metastore_db', see the next exception for details.
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.newEmbedSQLException(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.seeNextException(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.createDatabase(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection40.<init>(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.jdbc.Driver40.getNewEmbedConnection(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.jdbc.InternalDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.jdbc.Driver20.connect(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.jdbc.AutoloadedDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
  at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)
  at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:187)
  at com.jolbox.bonecp.BoneCP.obtainRawInternalConnection(BoneCP.java:254)
  at com.jolbox.bonecp.BoneCP.<init>(BoneCP.java:305)
  at com.jolbox.bonecp.BoneCPDataSource.maybeInit(BoneCPDataSource.java:150)
  at com.jolbox.bonecp.BoneCPDataSource.getConnection(BoneCPDataSource.java:112)
  at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.ConnectionFactoryImpl$ManagedConnectionImpl.getConnection(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:479)
  at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.RDBMSStoreManager.<init>(RDBMSStoreManager.java:304)
  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
  at org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.createExecutableExtension(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:631)
  at org.datanucleus.plugin.PluginManager.createExecutableExtension(PluginManager.java:301)
  at org.datanucleus.NucleusContext.createStoreManagerForProperties(NucleusContext.java:1069)
  at org.datanucleus.NucleusContext.initialise(NucleusContext.java:359)
  at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.freezeConfiguration(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:768)
  at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.createPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:326)
  at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:195)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
  at javax.jdo.JDOHelper$16.run(JDOHelper.java:1965)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invoke(JDOHelper.java:1960)
  at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invokeGetPersistenceManagerFactoryOnImplementation(JDOHelper.java:1166)
  at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:808)
  at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:701)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPMF(ObjectStore.java:307)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPersistenceManager(ObjectStore.java:336)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.initialize(ObjectStore.java:245)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.setConf(ObjectStore.java:220)
  at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:73)
  at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:133)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingRawStore.<init>(RetryingRawStore.java:62)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingRawStore.getProxy(RetryingRawStore.java:71)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.newRawStore(HiveMetaStore.java:420)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.getMS(HiveMetaStore.java:407)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.createDefaultDB(HiveMetaStore.java:446)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.init(HiveMetaStore.java:333)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.<init>(HiveMetaStore.java:293)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.<init>(RetryingHMSHandler.java:54)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.getProxy(RetryingHMSHandler.java:59)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:4085)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:126)
  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1161)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.<init>(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:62)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:72)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:2407)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:2418)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getDatabase(Hive.java:1141)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.databaseExists(Hive.java:1130)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.showTables(DDLTask.java:2250)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:334)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:151)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:65)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1485)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1263)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1091)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:931)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:921)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:268)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:220)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:422)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:357)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processReader(CliDriver.java:455)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processFile(CliDriver.java:465)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:746)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:684)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:623)
  at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.HiveMain.runHive(HiveMain.java:315)
  at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.HiveMain.run(HiveMain.java:276)
  at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.LauncherMain.run(LauncherMain.java:38)
  at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.HiveMain.main(HiveMain.java:66)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
  at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.LauncherMapper.map(LauncherMapper.java:226)
  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:54)
  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:430)
  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:342)
  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:168)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
  at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1548)
  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:163)
  Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Failed to create database '/var/lib/hive/metastore/metastore_db', see the next exception for details.
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.wrapArgsForTransportAcrossDRDA(Unknown Source)
  ... 102 more

Re: Error When Executing Hive-Sample on CDH5.0.1

kksia — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:38:49 GMT

Hi Romain,

I was quite confusing about this. I installed CM5 and CDH5.0.1 via parcels. and database I am using is MySQL. Services were installed automatically via the CM wizard.

What is the different of setting up Hive service as descibed in document comparing the one setup from Wizard? However, I tried to setup as per the document, but still not working, and with the same errors.

Thanks and Regards,

Re: Error When Executing Hive-Sample on CDH5.0.1

Romainr — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:04:57 GMT

I am not sure if CM setups the Metastore with Derby or MySql.

In any case, when using Oozie you need a real DBMS for the Metastore as the
Hive action will run on some nodes and need to contact the Metastore.

Could you share your hive-site.xml and the one you are using in Oozie?
(they could be the same)

Romain

Re: Error When Executing Hive-Sample on CDH5.0.1

kksia — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 03:34:52 GMT

Hi Romain,

I able to run the Hive sample that came with Huw now. Just need to update the hive-config.xml inside the sample itself, and works now.

Thanks..

Sia

Re: Error When Executing Hive-Sample on CDH5.0.1

Romainr — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:59:41 GMT

Glad to hear!

Romain

Re: Error When Executing Hive-Sample on CDH5.0.1

RussHockey2 — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:00:22 GMT

Just need to update the hive-config.xml inside the sample itself, and works now.

Can you please explain exactly what you did - please assume I am new to this.

thank you ...

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