I spun up an Impala cluster as per: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/03/how-to-create-a-cdh-cluster-on-amazon-ec2-via-cloudera-manager/ Everything worked as advertised ... except:   Starting Impala Shell in unsecure mode Connected to ip-10-102-45-216.ec2.internal:21000 Server version: impalad version 1.1.1 RELEASE (build 83d5868f005966883a918a819a449f636a5b3d5f) Query: drop TABLE IF EXISTS BASET Query: create TABLE BASET (val bigint) STORED AS PARQUETFILE Query: insert into BASET values (1) ERROR: AnalysisException: Failed to load metadata for table: default.BASET CAUSED BY: TableLoadingException: Failed to load metadata for table: baset CAUSED BY: MetaException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException SerDe parquet.hive.serde.ParquetHiveSerDe does not exist Could not execute command: insert into BASET values (1)   Any help will be appreciated! ... View more