The document needs to be updated. As per SLES 12 official doc: Starting the KDC Start the KDC daemon and the kadmin daemon. To start the daemons manually, enter: sudo systemctl start krb5kdc sudo systemctl start kadmind Also make sure that the services KDC (krb5kdc) and kadmind (kadmind) are started by default when the server machine is rebooted. Enable them by entering: sudo systemctl enable krb5kdc kadmind ... View more

Can you check if there are region-level inconsistencies? To recover try as hbase user hbase hbck -fix ... View more

Are you sure that the ORC tables you created were with no compression. By default hive.exec.orc.default.compress is set to ZLIB, perhaps your original table is with zlib compression. There are some interesting threads to read: https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/4067/snappy-vs-zlib-pros-and-cons-for-each-compression.html https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/49252/performance-comparison-bw-orc-snappy-and-zlib-in-h.html ... View more