I'm afraid that kafka doesn't come with HDFS sink connectorsor or something similar out of the box in HDP 2.6.5 , this is coming from CDP 7.1.1. I believe nifi or spark are alternatives that can be used for this. ... View more

Following up on this. All services are up and running. Is there another tool I can use besides DBeaver to connect to HiveServer2? ... View more

Don't run it as root, that should not be required. Are you using Ambari to manage the cluster? If yes make sure you do all this changes thru ambari ui. HTH ... View more

From what location are you invoking hplsql shell? If you have hplsql-site.xml in current directory, it should take precedence over default hplsql-site.xml file under lib folder. As an alternative you can try using SET command once you are inside shell to set parameters. ... View more