[HIVE-2055] Hive should add HBase classpath dependencies when available

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: HBase Handler
• Release Note: HBase will be detected via HBASE_HOME and HBASE_CONF_DIR. HBASE_HOME defaults to BigTop path /usr/lib/hbase.
• Assignee: Nick Dimiduk
• Reporter: sajith vijayan
• Created: 15/Mar/11 14:32
• Updated: 19/Nov/13 20:44
• Resolved: 19/Nov/13 20:44

Description

Created an external table in hive , which points to the HBase table. When tried to query a column using the column name in select clause got the following exception : ( java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HiveHBaseTableInputFormat), errorCode:12, SQLState:42000)

Issue Links

• is related to: HCATALOG-621 bin/hcat should include hbase jar and dependencies in the classpath
• is related to: HBASE-8438 Extend bin/hbase to print a "mapreduce classpath"