Issue: Create HBASE table on Hive

[#1]

Hi there.

The following statement fails to create HBASE table on hive:

CREATE TABLE passwd_hbase(userid STRING, uid INT, shell STRING)
STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ('hbase.columns.mapping' = ':key,passwd:uid,passwd:shell');

Error:

FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller.callWithoutRetries(RpcRetryingCaller.java:208)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.call(ClientScanner.java:320)

Any idea ?

Thx

[#2]

Hi,

Your syntax seems to be incomplete. Where do you detail which HBase table your Hive table should be map to? Usually this is done using the TBLPROPERTIES field...

JMS

[#3]

Still failing using :

CREATE TABLE passwd_hbase(userid STRING, uid INT, shell STRING)
STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ('hbase.columns.mapping' = ':key,passwd:uid,passwd:shell')

TBLPROPERTIES("hbase.table.name" = "mytable");

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZooKeeperWatcher.getMetaReplicaNodes(ZooKeeperWatcher.java:489)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MetaTableLocator.blockUntilAvailable(MetaTableLocator.java:549)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ZooKeeperRegistry.getMetaRegionLocation(ZooKeeperRegistry.java:61)

when executing list command in hbase it throws:

ERROR: The node /hbase is not in ZooKeeper. It should have been written by the master. Check the value configured in 'zookeeper.znode.parent'. There could be a mismatch with the one configured in the master.

[#4]

Does HBase works ?

Because with what you said (ERROR: The node /hbase is not in ZooKeeper.) I have the feeling that your HBase cluster is not working properly.

You should fix that first.

[#5 · Accepted solution]

In fact the issue was  that hbase was not installed.