@ehehtenandayo your Hive Metastore URI should look like "thirft://<Hive Metastore host>:9083."   Note that hive meta store host is not the same as the hive server host.   You can usually locate the correct thrift string in the hive-site.xml as such: <property> <name>hive.metastore.uris</name> <value>thrift://host1.cloudera.site:9083,thrift://host2.cloudera.site:9083</value> </property>   ... View more