When using the JDBC jars for Hive 0.13.1 running on HDP 2.1, queries executed against table 'default.sample_07' takes approximately 20-30 seconds to return.

The Hive JDBC jars for version 0.13.1 can be found here :
https://github.com/vchintal/hive-jdbc-jars-archive

Alternatively a ready-to-go modules can be downloaded from here for testing:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxJhoZ1V34QHSmgzTlBRVktZaGM/

Use the following driver snippet when using the above mentioned module:

<driver name="hive" module="org.apache.hadoop.hive:0.13.1">
<driver-class>org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver</driver-class>
</driver>