Above problem has been solved by adding hbase.jar in /usr/lib/hadoop/lib & add some jar files like hive-hbase-handler.jar, hbase.jar, guava.jar, zookeeper.jar, hive-contrib.jar in auxpth in hive-site.xml as given below:   <name>hive.aux.jars.path</name> <description>Specify paths to jars for hbase integration - must update each CDH release!</description> <value>file:///usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-hbase-handler-0.10.0-cdh4.3.0.jar,file:///usr/lib/hive/lib/hbase.jar,file:///usr/lib/hive/lib/guava-11.0.2.jar,file:///usr/lib/hive/lib/zookeeper.jar,file:///usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-contrib-0.10.0-cdh4.3.0.jar</value> </property>   Thanks  Surbhi ... View more