# Getting Started With Hive JDBC
## How to install JDBC driver
Kyuubi JDBC driver is fully compatible with the 2.3.* version of hive JDBC driver, so we reuse hive JDBC driver to connect to Kyuubi server.
Add repository to your maven configuration file which may reside in `$MAVEN_HOME/conf/settings.xml`.
```xml
central maven repo
central maven repo https
https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
```
You can add below dependency to your `pom.xml` file in your application.
```xml
org.apache.hive
hive-jdbc
2.3.7
org.apache.hadoop
hadoop-common
2.7.4
```
## Use JDBC driver with kerberos
The below java code is using a keytab file to login and connect to Kyuubi server by JDBC.
```java
package org.apache.kyuubi.examples;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction;
import java.sql.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
public class JDBCTest {
private static String driverName = "org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver";
private static String kyuubiJdbcUrl = "jdbc:hive2://localhost:10009/default;";
public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
String principal = args[0]; // kerberos principal
String keytab = args[1]; // keytab file location
Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
configuration.set(HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "kerberos");
UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(configuration);
UserGroupInformation ugi = UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytabAndReturnUGI(principal, keytab);
Class.forName(driverName);
Connection conn = ugi.doAs(new PrivilegedExceptionAction(){
public Connection run() throws SQLException {
return DriverManager.getConnection(kyuubiJdbcUrl);
}
});
Statement st = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet res = st.executeQuery("show databases");
while (res.next()) {
System.out.println(res.getString(1));
}
res.close();
st.close();
conn.close();
}
}
```