I gave things working on my cluster with the sparksql thrift server. (Thank you Yin Huai at Databricks!)
That said, I was curious how I can cache a table via my instance here? I tried the shark like "create table table_cached as select * from table" and that did not create a cached table. cacheTable("table") didn't parse in beeline. Any thoughts? Any pointers to documentation (*crosses fingers)?