That is very curious I have seen lots of stripes being created because of memory problems. But normally he only gets down to 5000 rows and then out of memory. Which version of Hive are you using? What are your memory settings for the hive tasks and if the file is small is it possible that the table is partitioned and the task is writing into a large number of partitions at the same time? Can you share the LOAD command and the table layout? ... View more

You could use a shell action, add the token to the oozie files ( file tag ) and do the kinit yourself before running the java command. Obviously not that elegant and you have a token somewhere in HDFS but it should work. I did something similar with a shell action running a scala program and running a kinit before. ( Not against hive but running kinit then connecting to HDFS ). Ceterum censeo I would always suggest using a hive server with LDAP/PAM authentication. beeline and hive2 action has a password file option now and it makes life so much easier. As a database guy kerberos for a jdbc connection just always makes problems. Here is the oozie shell command by the way. <shell xmlns="uri:oozie:shell-action:0.1"> <job-tracker>${jobTracker}</job-tracker> <name-node>${nameNode}</name-node> <exec>runJavaCommand.sh</exec> <file>${nameNode}/scripts/runJavaCommand.sh#runJavaCommand.sh</file> <file>${nameNode}/securelocation/user.keytab#user.keytab</file> </shell> then just add a kinit into the script before running java kinit -kt user.keytab user@EXAMPLE.COM java org.apache.myprogram ... View more