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!