In all my queries I am seeing Hive attempt to re-create the bigbench Hive database, followed by several retries. Eventually it continues and completes successfully:
2016-05-10 20:29:43,636 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore: [pool-4-thread-10]: Initialized ObjectStore
2016-05-10 20:29:43,639 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.log.PerfLogger: [pool-4-thread-10]: </PERFLOG method=get_all_functions start=1462912183618 end=1462912183639 duration=21 from=org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler threadId=10 retryCount=0 error=false>
2016-05-10 20:29:46,591 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.log.PerfLogger: [pool-4-thread-10]: <PERFLOG method=create_database from=org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler>
2016-05-10 20:29:46,592 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore: [pool-4-thread-10]: 10: source:192.168.29.1 create_database: Database(name:bigbench, description:null, locationUri:null, parameters:null, ownerName:root, ownerType:USER)
2016-05-10 20:29:46,592 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.audit: [pool-4-thread-10]: ugi=root ip=192.168.29.1 cmd=source:192.168.29.1 create_database: Database(name:bigbench, description:null, locationUri:null, parameters:null, ownerName:root, ownerType:USER)
2016-05-10 20:29:46,597 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler: [pool-4-thread-10]: AlreadyExistsException(message:Database bigbench already exists)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.create_database(HiveMetaStore.java:944)
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I am using version TPCx-BB_v1.0.1. The Load_Test completed successfully, creating the bigbench Hive database.