I added the jar file and still my query is running for the last 8 minutes. CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE intermediate_access_logs ( ip STRING, date STRING, method STRING, url STRING, http_version STRING, code1 STRING, code2 STRING, dash STRING, user_agent STRING) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.contrib.serde2.RegexSerDe' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( 'input.regex' = '([^ ]*) - - \\[([^\\]]*)\\] "([^\ ]*) ([^\ ]*) ([^\ ]*)" (\\d*) (\\d*) "([^"]*)" "([^"]*)"', 'output.format.string' = "%1$$s %2$$s %3$$s %4$$s %5$$s %6$$s %7$$s %8$$s %9$$s") LOCATION '/user/hive/warehouse/original_access_logs'; Any other setting change needs to be done? ... View more