I just experienced the same issue. Check out the hive log (e.g. C:\hadoop\logs\hive\hive.log) to really see what’s going on.
In my case the problem was that I installed HDP with SQL Server as the Hive metastore and the installation did not create the DB schema for my hive db. I used Toby Evens’ approach to create the Hive DB Schema: http://hortonworks.com/community/forums/topic/hdp-2-2-for-window-server-2012-standard-hive-could-not-work/