Hi Friends, I was putting the url incorrectly, ":" was missing from the url after the port number. So the correct one is as below: jdbc:phoenix:ec2-11-111-11-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com:2181:/hbase-unsecure But now I am getting the below error: Unexpected Error occurred attempting to open an SQL connection. class java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: null java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:205) at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.mainframe.action.OpenConnectionCommand.awaitConnection(OpenConnectionCommand.java:132) at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.mainframe.action.OpenConnectionCommand.access$100(OpenConnectionCommand.java:45) at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.mainframe.action.OpenConnectionCommand$2.run(OpenConnectionCommand.java:115) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Please advice. ... View more