Answering my own question! In the following post I found my answer https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/56113/trying-to-create-phoenix-interpreter-using-jdbc-in.html I created a new "test jdbc interpreter" left every setting default but added the following dependancies below. My newly created interpreter works but the default %jdbc interpreter still faults with the path error as in the attached picture. org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc:0.14.0 org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common:2.6.0 Many thanks! @Randy Gelhausen ... View more