I would expect that to work. What exactly is the error?
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Matt Chu <m...@kabam.com> wrote: > (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 >
