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DB/tables in metastore manager, but not in Hive query editor

Tully — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:00:18 GMT

Upgraded to CDH5.2 yesterday and althought there was a hic-up getting the hive metastore schema upgraded, that was resolved eventually. Now in Hue, I can view/create databases & tables in the Metastore Manager, but in the query editors (Hive and/or Impala) there are no databases listed.

Any suggestions on where to start troubleshooting?

Re: DB/tables in metastore manager, but not in Hive query editor

Romainr — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:46:02 GMT

Weird, could you click on the refresh tables or in your browser incognito
mode to see if the empty data was cached? (Metastore and Hive/Impala both
use the same API to poke Hive)

Romain

Re: DB/tables in metastore manager, but not in Hive query editor

Tully — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:35:03 GMT

Was a bad metastore server - ended up stopping the metastore server and using a different one.