@sur I believe you have to Set below properties before executing create table statement.  SET hive.txn.manager=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lockmgr.DbTxnManager; SET hive.support.concurrency=true; This seems a very known behaviour and I did a simple Googling and found the solutions on several places. Below are the references.  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42669171/semanticexception-error-10265-while-running-simple-hive-select-query-on-a-tran https://dbmstutorials.com/hive/hive-errors.html https://knowledge.informatica.com/s/article/526538?language=en_USv Hope this helps.  ... View more