Cannot connect to beeline

[#1]

I am trying to connect beeline from client system but I am not able to...

Beeline version 0.10.0-cdh4.5.0 by Apache Hive
beeline> !connect jdbc:hive2://hostname.com:10000 org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver
scan complete in 6ms
Connecting to jdbc:hive2://hostname.com:10000
Enter password for jdbc:hive2://hostname.com:10000: ********
Error: Invalid URL: jdbc:hive2://hostname.com:10000 (state=08S01,code=0)

Am I missing anything here...Please advice..

[#2]

It seems you're using the wrong JDBC driver. For HiveServer2, the JDBC driver class is org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver.

[#3]

I also tried using org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver but no luck

!connect jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000 org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver
scan complete in 6ms
Connecting to jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000
Enter password for jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000: ********
Error: Invalid URL: jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000 (state=08S01,code=0)

[#4]

We are using thrift service to connect to our hive metastore...
For thrift, need to use a different URL ?

[#5]

I must be misunderstanding the issue. If you need to connect HiveServer2
via JDBC, then the URL given for beeline should be one that has
HiveServer2's hostname/port.

If you need to connect to MetaStore via thrift, then you need to give
MetaStore server's hostname and port number to your thrift client.

HiveServer2 server and MetaStore server are two different servers running
on different host/port.

[#6]

Sorry for confusing you...
I need to connect to the hiveserver2 using beeline and create a database.
the URL would be jdbc:hive2://hiveserver2_hostname:10000 org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver ?
I tried this too, got the same error.

[#7]

What would be the username and password that I need to supply while executing this command ?

[#8]

Those would be what you're given by the HiverServer2 admin. If your
HiverServer2 instance is running with the default, then just leave them
blank.

[#9]

When I leave it blank it is asking me for the password. I am not sure which password to supply...

[#10]

Also leave it blank.