I was able to fix this issue by copying the following jars located at /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/hive/lib to  /user/oozie/share/lib/lib_{ts}/hive/   hbase-client.jar hbase-common.jar hbase-hadoop2-compat.jar hbase-hadoop-compat.jar hbase-protocol.jar hbase-server.jar hive-hbase-handler-0.12.0-cdh5.1.3.jar hive-hbase-handler.jar htrace-core.jar   I'm using Hadoop 2.3.0-cdh5.1.3 and CDH manager 5. - Saimon ... View more