val hiveContext = new HiveContext(sc)
HiveThriftServer2.startWithContext(hiveContext)
val df = hiveContext.read.parquet("file:/some.parquet.gz")
df.registerTempTable("test")

0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default (closed)> !connect jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default root root
Connecting to jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default
Connected to: Spark SQL (version 1.6.1)
Driver: Spark Project Core (version 1.6.2)
Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ
1: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default> show tables;
+------------+--------------+--+
| tableName  | isTemporary  |
+------------+--------------+--+
+------------+--------------+--+
No rows selected (0.315 seconds)
1: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default>