We got help from support to solve this. Here the solution. Solution is temporary for that hive session.   hive> set hbase.zookeeper.quorum=list of host names   hive> ADD JAR /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.4.0-1.cdh4.4.0.p0.39/lib/hive/lib/hive-hbase-handler-0.10.0-cdh4.4.0.jar hive> ADD JAR /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.4.0-1.cdh4.4.0.p0.39/lib/hive/lib/guava-11.0.2.jar; hive> ADD JAR /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.4.0-1.cdh4.4.0.p0.39/lib/hive/lib/zookeeper.jar; hive> ADD JAR /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.4.0-1.cdh4.4.0.p0.39/lib/hbase/hbase-0.94.6-cdh4.4.0-security.jar; ... View more