https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Read-HBase-Table-by-using-Spark-Scala/m-p/164299#M126669 <P>Hi, this is my Scala code to read Hbase tables. It's working with Hbase latest version 1.1.2.2.6.4.0-91 (HDP 2.6.4, Ambari 2.6.1).</P><P>The key parameter is:</P><PRE>conf.set("zookeeper.znode.parent", "/hbase-unsecure")</PRE><P>because zookeeper doesn't hold the Hbase master detail.</P><P>Check:</P><P># /usr/hdp/2.6.4.0-91/zookeeper/bin/zkCli.sh -server &lt;server&gt;.hortonworks.com:2181</P><P># ls /hbase-unsecure/master return []</P><PRE>import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Connection import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName object Hbase { val conf: Configuration = HBaseConfiguration.create() def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = { //conf.set("hbase.master", "&lt;server&gt;.hortonworks.com" + ":" + "60000") conf.setInt("timeout", 120000) conf.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", "&lt;server&gt;.hortonworks.com") conf.set("zookeeper.znode.parent", "/hbase-unsecure") // IMPORTANT!!! conf.setInt("hbase.client.scanner.caching", 10000) val connection: Connection = ConnectionFactory.createConnection(conf) val table = connection.getTable(TableName.valueOf("trading")) print("connection created") val admin = connection.getAdmin // List the tables. val listtables = admin.listTables() listtables.foreach(println) connection.close() } }</PRE><P>Result:</P><P>'trading', {NAME =&gt; 'ca', BLOOMFILTER =&gt; 'ROW', VERSIONS =&gt; '1', IN_MEMORY =&gt; 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS =&gt; 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING =&gt; 'NONE', TTL =&gt; 'FOREVER', COMPRESSION =&gt; 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS =&gt; '0', BLOCKCACHE =&gt; 'true', BLOCKSIZE =&gt; '65536', REPLICATION_SCOPE =&gt; '0'}</P> Fri, 02 Feb 2018 06:46:15 GMT YOTTALABS 2018-02-02T06:46:15Z