I am getting the following error even though that file exists in hdfs 0: jdbc:drill:zk=local> select * from hdfs.`/user/train/xd/tweets/tmp/tweets-0.txt`; Oct 22, 2014 5:16:31 PM org.eigenbase.sql.validate.SqlValidatorException SEVERE: org.eigenbase.sql.validate.SqlValidatorException: Table 'hdfs./user/train/xd/tweets/tmp/tweets-0.txt' not found Oct 22, 2014 5:16:31 PM org.eigenbase.util.EigenbaseException SEVERE: org.eigenbase.util.EigenbaseContextException: From line 1, column 15 to line 1, column 18: Table 'hdfs./user/train/xd/tweets/tmp/tweets-0.txt' not found Query failed: Failure while parsing sql. Table 'hdfs./user/train/xd/tweets/tmp/tweets-0.txt' not found [7e1d5c73-0521-480e-b74b-a4fa50e3f4a7] Error: exception while executing query: Failure while trying to get next result batch. (state=,code=0) I created new plugin called hdfs. { "type": "file", "enabled": true, "connection": "hdfs://10.225.156.201:9000/", "workspaces": { "json": { "location": "/user/train/xd/tweets/tmp", "writable": false, "storageformat": "json" } }, "formats": { "json": { "type": "json" } } }