I am having the same problem with the Cloudera drivers. For connection to Impala (CDH 5.8/5.9) I am using "Apache Hive JDBC standalone driver".   Links to jars: hive-jdbc-2.1.1-standalone.jar hadoop-common-2.7.3.jar   Below you can see an examples of setting connections to Impala.   Setup Squirrel connection: Run SQuirrel and add driver with following parameters: - driver name: hive-jdbc-2.1.1 - class name: org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver - example url: jdbc:hive2://<host>:21050/;auth=noSasl - extra class path: <path_to_jars> Add alias with following parameters: - name: impala - driver: hive-jdbc-2.1.1 - username: <your_username> - password: <your_password> Test connection    Setup JMeter connection: Add jars to classpath Add "JDBC Connection Configuration" with following parameters: - Auto commit: True - Database URL: jdbc:hive2://<host>:21050/;auth=noSasl - JDBC Driver class: org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver - username: <your_username> - password: <your_password> ... View more