Hadoop Hive Error: Could not connect client socket, timed_out

Small Bites of Big Data

Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM

With the Hadoop on Azure CTP, when you create a Hadoop cluster it expires after a few days to free up the resources for other CTP users. Therefore each time I do a demo or test I am likely to create a new Hadoop cluster. There are a few settings that it’s easy to forget about. For example, today I spun up a cluster and tried to use the Hive Pane add-in from Excel. I entered the connection information and hit the “OK” button.

Instead of seeing the expected option to choose the Hive table I saw this error:

Text version:

Error connecting to Hive server. Details:

SQL_ERROR Failed to connect to (cgross.cloudapp.net:10000): Could not connect client socket. Details: <Host: cgross.cloudapp.net Port: 10000> endpoint: 168.62.107.55, error: timed_out

While there are very likely many possible reasons for this error, I’ve done this enough times to immediately realize I never opened the ODBC Server port on this particular cluster. I opened port 10000 on the Hadoop cluster via the “Open Ports” tile and tried again. Success! I can now query my Hive data!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this small bite of big data! Look for more blog posts soon on the samples and other activities.

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Other Small Bites of Big Data: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/cindygross/archive/tags/hadoop/