1. CDH5 works with Spark2 by installing a separate parcel. 2. The document suggests that CDH5 + Spark2 does not support Spark-On-HBase. Spark-On-HBase work with CDH 5 and Spark 1.6 3. With CDH 6.x default Spark version is Spark 2.x+ so as a new feature Spark-On-HBase https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/6/release-notes/topics/rg_cdh_600_new_features.html#spark_new_features Spark On HBase now runs on top of Apache Spark 2.x. 4. Refer document below to use Spark-on-HBase on CDH6.x: https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/6/6.3/topics/admin_hbase_import.html#concept_asc_ctz_wp     ... View more

You can most certainly project more than one column at a time in an Impala query, be it from a table in Kudu or from HDFS. Based on your problem description, it almost sounds like a problem with your terminal, or with the impala-shell configuration. Have you looked at the impala-shell configuration options? Maybe something there can help solve the problem. ... View more