I have resolved the issue. Made the following environment variable settings in %HBASE_HOME%\conf\hbase-env.cmd Provided JAVA_HOME is set beforehead, in this case JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101 set in Windows environment variable set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME% set HBASE_CLASSPATH=%HBASE_HOME%\lib\client-facing-thirdparty\* set HBASE_HEAPSIZE=8000 set HBASE_OPTS="-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC" "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true" set SERVER_GC_OPTS="-verbose:gc" "-XX:+PrintGCDetails" "-XX:+PrintGCDateStamps" %HBASE_GC_OPTS% set HBASE_USE_GC_LOGFILE=true set HBASE_JMX_BASE="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false" "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false" set HBASE_MASTER_OPTS=%HBASE_JMX_BASE% "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=10101" set HBASE_REGIONSERVER_OPTS=%HBASE_JMX_BASE% "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=10102" set HBASE_THRIFT_OPTS=%HBASE_JMX_BASE% "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=10103" set HBASE_ZOOKEEPER_OPTS=%HBASE_JMX_BASE% -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=10104" set HBASE_REGIONSERVERS=%HBASE_HOME%\conf\regionservers set HBASE_LOG_DIR=%HBASE_HOME%\logs set HBASE_IDENT_STRING=%USERNAME% set HBASE_MANAGES_ZK=true Since running in standalone mode, add only the following property in %HBASE_HOME%\conf\hbase-site.xml IMP: No need to add hbase.rootdir or hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir <configuration> <property> <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name> <value>false</value> </property> </configuration>   ... View more