I had exactly the same issue and turned out that the count includes also snapshot. To check if that's the case one can add -x option in the count, e.g.:   hdfs dfs -count -v -h -x   /user/hive/warehouse/my_schema.db/* ... View more

Hi, Couple of questions: 1. Have you checked HS2 log and see if it complained anything or did beeline reach HS2 at all? I suspect not, but just want to be sure. 2. Based on the code here: https://github.com/cloudera/hive/blob/cdh6.1.0/beeline/src/java/org/apache/hive/beeline/BeeLine.java#L1035-L1048 It looks like that beeline failed to get the connection string. Have you tried to quote the connection string just in case? beeline -u 'jdbc:hive2://hostname.domain.dom:10000' Cheers Eric ... View more