Thank you, it also worked for me. I was trying to connect to hive with a CLI interface (/usr/bin/hive or /usr/bin/beeline), and using the URL connexion show in the Ambari / Services / Hive / Summary interface, the connexion was refused. Using jdbc:hive2://sandbox.hortonworks.com:10000/default, it works This JIRA page can really help: HiveServer2 Clients. It explains the Connection URL Format and explicits some default (like the default port = 1000) Phil ... View more