Since Oozie lacks knowledge of where your HBase configs lie, you will need to pass the client hbase-site.xml file (placed somewhere on HDFS, by copying from /etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml on any HBase gateway node) via the <job-xml>…</job-xml> option. Alternatively, try the below command instead (will not be sufficient for secured clusters, which need further properties), replacing zk-host1,zk-host2,zk-host3 with your actual 3 hosts appropriately: sqoop import -Dhbase.zookeeper.quorum=zk-host1,zk-host2,zk-host3 --connect jdbc:oracle:thin:@XXX:port/XXX --username XXX --password XXX --table XXX -m 1 --incremental lastmodified --last-value '2014-06-23' --check-column XXX --append --hbase-table XXX --column-family info --hbase-row-key XXX --hbase-bulkload ... View more