Arali, You can use this feature from Hive 14 onwards for your use case: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8376
Thanks, -Vaibhav From: arali tech <aralitec...@gmail.com<mailto:aralitec...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: user <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Monday, December 15, 2014 at 1:35 AM To: user <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: HiveServer2 multiple instances Hi, Has anybody tried to run multiple instances of HiveServer2 on same node with differeent port numbers OR multiple instances of HiverServer2 on different nodes with loadbalancing between the different instances. Will HiveServer2 scale with single instance no matter what is the size of load or number of requests. Regards, Arali