The error seems to indicate that the source JSON is malformed. Check where the data is stored and look at the JSON structure. Each row should be one, self-contained JSON. Please post screenshot here.   Also, did you add the necessary jar to Hive: hive-serdes-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. I assume you are following this example: https://github.com/cloudera/cdh-twitter-example   Finally, you can try a different serDe as shown in this topic: https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hive-table-error/td-p/127271   Or try this solution on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32416555/twitter-sentiment-analysis   ... View more