(apologies for sending this twice, first via nabble; didn't realize it wouldn't get forwarded)
Hey, I know it's not officially released yet, but I'm trying to understand (and run) the Thrift-based JDBC server, in order to enable remote JDBC access to our dev cluster. Before asking about details, is my understanding of this correct? `sbin/start-thriftserver` is a JDBC/Hive server that doesn't require running a Hive+MR cluster (i.e. just Spark/Spark+YARN)? Assuming yes, I have hope that it all basically works, just that some documentation needs to be cleaned up: - I found a release page implying that 1.1 will be released "pretty soon-ish": https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Wiki+Homepage - I can find recent (more recent 30 days or so) activity with promising titles: ["Updated Spark SQL README to include the hive-thriftserver module"](https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1867), ["[SPARK-2410][SQL] Merging Hive Thrift/JDBC server (with Maven profile fix)"]( https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1620) Am I following all the right email threads, issues trackers, and whatnot? Specifically, I tried: 1. Building off of `branch-1.1`, synced as of ~today (2014 Aug 25) 2. Running `sbin/start-thriftserver.sh` in `yarn-client` mode 3. Can see the processing running, and the spark context/app created in yarn logs, and can connect to the thrift server on the default port of 10000 using `bin/beeline` 4. However, when I try to find out what that cluster has via `show tables;`, in the logs I see a connection error to some (what I assume to be) random port. So what service am I forgetting/too ignorant to run? Or did I misunderstand and we do need a live Hive instance to back thriftserver? Or is this a YARN-specific issue? Only recently started learning the ecosystem and community, so apologies for the longer post and lots of questions. :) Matt
