Hello @d33play  I checked the documents again and found there is an internal jira CDH-72683 which was tracked for CDH versions to support Kafka Storage Handler.  Kafka Storage Handler is a part of Hive 3.x version but CDH 6.1.1 comes with Apache Hive 2.1.1 Hence it is not supported in CDH versions but is available with CDP. https://docs.cloudera.com/runtime/7.2.0/release-notes/topics/rt-runtime-component-versions.html https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.1.5/runtime-release-notes/topics/rt-pvc-runtime-component-versions.html   So, the KafkaStorageHandler package will not work with Hive 2.1.1.   Hope this information helps.   Thanks and Regards, Nandini   ... View more