HDP 2.2 Preview Sandbox – Hive Transactions Exception

I’m trying to test the ACID / CRUD compliance of Hive 0.14 in the HDP 2.2 Preview Sandbox. Without making any changes to the VM, Hive is not configured to support transactions. When running an UPDATE, I see a message like this:

FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10294]: Attempt to do update or delete using transaction manager that does not support these operations.

This lead me to discover that additional configuration is required to support transactions. I made the configuration changes to Hive detailed here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+Transactions#HiveTransactions-NewConfigurationParametersforTransactions

Now when I run a INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE I get a NullPointerException when the transaction heartbeat occurs.

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lockmgr.DbTxnManager.heartbeat(DbTxnManager.java:254)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Heartbeater.heartbeat(Heartbeater.java:81)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.HadoopJobExecHelper.progress(HadoopJobExecHelper.java:242)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.HadoopJobExecHelper.progress(HadoopJobExecHelper.java:547)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecDriver.execute(ExecDriver.java:435)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask.execute(MapRedTask.java:136)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:161)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:85)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1604)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1364)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1177)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1004)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:994)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:247)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:199)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:410)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:783)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:677)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:616)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
Ended Job = job_1414522531575_0004 with exception 'java.lang.NullPointerException(null)'

Has anyone else successfully tested ACID compliance in this preview VM?