Hi Meher, Kudu will not integrate with Hive Metastore (HMS) without specific changes. Consider the following from kudu.apache.org. "Kudu has an optional feature which allows it to integrate its own catalog with the Hive Metastore (HMS). The HMS is the de-facto standard catalog and metadata provider in the Hadoop ecosystem. When the HMS integration is enabled, Kudu tables can be discovered and used by external HMS-aware tools, even if they are not otherwise aware of or integrated with Kudu. " You'll  need to configure Kudu to integrate with HMS. https://kudu.apache.org/docs/hive_metastore.html ... View more