Use DBeaver for Apache Spark over Beeline

Installing and configuring beeline is painful and the brew install hive doesn’t work for Mac Silicon. Instead, I would just use DBeaver. They have an Apache Spark entry and it can also use SSH tunnel. I use this so this so I can access my AWS EMR instance through a bastion/jump box through my macbook.

DBeaver support for Apache Spark

DBeaver Apache Spark also supports SSH tunnel