Sorry, this is a pain point that HBase has been trying to unravel for a while now. There isn't a good answer because the protobufs must match between client and server (that's why the trivial shading doesn't work). gRPC hasn't been too common in the HBase realm (at least from my point of view). Until we can get these changes into an Apache release and/or HDP release, you would have to find some way to isolate the conflicting protobuf versions. ... View more