Connecting to the Apache Spark™ SQL Thrift server using Beeline

You can use Shark Beeline to test the Spark SQL Thrift server.

Procedure

Start DataStax Enterprise with Spark enabled as a service or in a standalone installation.
Start the server by entering the dse spark-sql-thriftserver start command as a user with permissions to write to the Spark directories.

To override the default settings for the server, pass in the configuration property using the --hiveconf option. See the HiveServer2 documentation for a complete list of configuration properties.
```
dse spark-sql-thriftserver start
```
By default, the server listens on port 10000 on the localhost interface on the node from which it was started. You can specify the server to start on a specific port. For example, to start the server on port 10001, use the --hiveconf hive.server2.thrift.port=10001 option. You can configure the port and bind address in resources/spark/conf/spark-env.sh: HIVE_SERVER2_THRIFT_PORT, HIVE_SERVER2_THRIFT_BIND_HOST.
```
dse spark-sql-thriftserver start --hiveconf hive.server2.thrift.port=10001
```
You can specify general Spark configuration settings by using the --conf option.
```
dse spark-sql-thrift-server start --conf spark.cores.max=4
```
Start the Beeline shell.
```
dse spark-beeline
```
Connect to the server using the JDBC URI for your server.
```
beeline> !connect jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000
```

Connect to a keyspace and run a query from the Beehive shell.

0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> use test;
0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> select * from test;