Thanks a lot for your answer, @Ankit Singhal! Yes, I have added the property "hbase.struct.autogenerate" = "true" in the setup.hql file. In regards to the "hive.serialization.extend.nesting.levels", I had to add it, because I was receiving an error message like this: ERROR ql.Driver: FAILED: SemanticException org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException: Number of levels of nesting supported for LazySimpleSerde is 8 Unable to work with 9 levels or something similar. After I added that line, it started working just to break to IllegalArgumentException - I am not sure if they are somehow related (?). ... View more