The below code worked. @Shishir Saxena package hadoop.test; import java.util.List; import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration; import org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf; import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient; import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation; import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.api.HCatClient; import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.api.HCatTable; import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.common.HCatConstants; import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.common.HCatException; import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.schema.HCatFieldSchema; import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.schema.HCatSchema; public class ListDBs1 { publicstaticvoid main(String[] args) { HCatClient hcatClient = null; try { String principal ="hive/quickstart.cloudera@XXX.COM"; String keytab = "E:\\apps\\metacenter_home\\hadoop\\hive.keytab"; System.setProperty("sun.security.krb5.debug", "true"); System.setProperty("java.security.krb5.conf", "E:\\apps\\hadoop\\krb5.conf"); System.setProperty("java.security.auth.login.config", "E:\\apps\\hadoop\\jaas.conf"); HiveConf hcatConf = new HiveConf(); hcatConf.setVar(HiveConf.ConfVars.METASTOREURIS, "thrift://server:9083"); hcatConf.set("hadoop.security.authentication", "kerberos"); hcatConf.set(HCatConstants.HCAT_HIVE_CLIENT_DISABLE_CACHE, "true"); hcatConf.setVar(HiveConf.ConfVars.METASTORE_KERBEROS_PRINCIPAL, principal); hcatConf.setVar(HiveConf.ConfVars.METASTORE_KERBEROS_KEYTAB_FILE, keytab); hcatConf.setVar(HiveConf.ConfVars.METASTORE_USE_THRIFT_SASL, "true"); UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(hcatConf); UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab(principal, keytab); hcatClient = HCatClient.create(new Configuration(hcatConf)); HiveMetaStoreClient hiveMetastoreClient = new HiveMetaStoreClient(hcatConf); list(hcatClient,hiveMetastoreClient); } catch (Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (hcatClient != null) try { hcatClient.close(); } catch (HCatException e) { } } } privatestaticvoid list(HCatClient hcatClient, HiveMetaStoreClient hiveMetastoreClient) throws Exception { List<String> dbs = hcatClient.listDatabaseNamesByPattern("*"); for (String db : dbs) { System.out.println(db); List<String> tables = hcatClient.listTableNamesByPattern(db, "*"); for (String tableString: tables) { HCatTable tbl = hcatClient.getTable(db, tableString); String tableType = tbl.getTabletype(); String tableName = tbl.getTableName(); System.out.println(tableType + " - " + tableName); System.out.println("Table Name is: " + tableName); System.out.println("Table Type is: " + tbl.getTabletype()); System.out.println("Table Props are: " + tbl.getTblProps()); List<HCatFieldSchema> fields = tbl.getCols(); for (HCatFieldSchema f: fields) { System.out.println("Field Name is: " + f.getName()); System.out.println("Field Type String is: " + f.getTypeString()); System.out.println("Field Type Category is: " + f.getTypeString()); if (f.getCategory().equals(HCatFieldSchema.Category.STRUCT)) { HCatSchema schema = f.getStructSubSchema(); List<String> structFields = schema.getFieldNames(); for (String fieldName: structFields) { System.out.println("Struct Field Name is: " + fieldName); } } } if (tableType.equalsIgnoreCase("View") || tableType.equalsIgnoreCase("VIRTUAL_VIEW")) { org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table viewMetastoreObject = hiveMetastoreClient.getTable(db, tableName); String sql = viewMetastoreObject.getViewOriginalText(); System.out.println(sql); } } } } } ... View more