Failed to create a table in Hive backed by HBase. Will it fix the error to copy hbase-site.xml into /etc/hive/conf/ ? Often when you use Impala with Hbase and first you need create metastore from Hive. $ hive –auxpath /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.5.0-1.cdh4.5.0.p251.30/lib/hive/lib/zookeeper.jar,/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.5.0-1.cdh4.5.0.p251.30/lib/hive/lib/hbase.jar,/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.5.0-1.cdh4.5.0.p251.30/lib/hive/lib/hive-hbase-handler-0.10.0-cdh4.5.0.jar,/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.5.0-1.cdh4.5.0.p251.30/lib/hive/lib/guava-11.0.2.jar…