Dear all,   I am having troubles using Impala to access data stored in HBase.   Impala throws me the following error message:   AnalysisException: Failed to load metadata for table: default.customsink_lat CAUSED BY: TableLoadingException: TableLoadingException: Failed to parse view-definition statement of view: default.customsink_lat However, Hive does work perfectly fine. Unfortunately it is not an option because it is too slow.    The scenario: - One HBase table with wide columns - One Hive table based on the HBase table and another one that uses explode to transform the columns into rows   The structure in Hive:   customsink_lat: based on this code:   create or replace view customsink_lat as SELECT id, clmndate,clmnvalue FROM customsink LATERAL VIEW explode(props) cl AS clmndate,clmnvalue;  and another one based directly on HBase: CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE customsink( id string, props map<bigint,float> ) STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( "hbase.columns.mapping" = ":key,cf:" ) TBLPROPERTIES("hbase.table.name" = "customsink");   Do you have any idea why Imala cannot handle the structure of customsink_lat?   Thank you very much in advance, Fabian   PS: Here are the results of Hive queries. Especially customsink_lat does not contain nested data anymore, although it is based on nested data. So I cannot find an explanation why Impala still refuses to parse customsink_lat.   hive> select * from customsink; OK Source1 {9223370642321980337:1.0,9223370642321980339:0.0,9223370642329180337:1.0,9223370642329180339:0.0} Source2 {9223370642321980333:3.0,9223370642321980335:2.0,9223370642329180333:3.0,9223370642329180335:2.0} Time taken: 0.296 seconds   hive> select * from customsink_lat; Total MapReduce jobs = 1 Launching Job 1 out of 1 OK Source1 9223370642321980337 1.0 Source1 9223370642321980339 0.0 Source1 9223370642329180337 1.0 Source1 9223370642329180339 0.0 Source2 9223370642321980333 3.0 Source2 9223370642321980335 2.0 Source2 9223370642329180333 3.0 Source2 9223370642329180335 2.0 Time taken: 27.986 seconds   ... View more