Hello @smruti,   I will reply later with the version, in the meantime I tried the latest driver and got a similar error:   Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "javax.security.sasl.SaslServer.dispose()" because "this.saslServer" is null at com.cloudera.hive.jdbc42.internal.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport$SaslParticipant.dispose(TSaslTransport.java:551) ~[hiveJDBC42.jar:?] at com.cloudera.hive.jdbc42.internal.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport.close(TSaslTransport.java:393) ~[hiveJDBC42.jar:?] at com.cloudera.hive.jdbc42.internal.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslClientTransport.close(TSaslClientTransport.java:38) ~[hiveJDBC42.jar:?] at com.cloudera.hiveserver2.hivecommon.api.HiveServer2ClientFactory.createTransport(Unknown Source) ~[hiveJDBC42.jar:?] at com.cloudera.hiveserver2.hivecommon.api.ServiceDiscoveryFactory.createClient(Unknown Source) ~[hiveJDBC42.jar:?] at com.cloudera.hiveserver2.hivecommon.core.HiveJDBCCommonConnection.connectToServer(Unknown Source) ~[hiveJDBC42.jar:?] at com.cloudera.hiveserver2.hivecommon.core.HiveJDBCCommonConnection.establishConnection(Unknown Source)   Thanks ... View more