CDH4 Hbase using Pig ERROR 2998 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hbase/filter/Filter

Question

I am using CDH4 in a pseudo-distributed mode and I have some trouble working with HBase and Pig together (but both work fine alone).

I am following step by step this

Answer 1

Your PIG_CLASSPATH is wrong, it should look like the following:

export PIG_CLASSPATH=”`hbase classpath`:$PIG_CLASSPATH”

This will add your missing hbase-related jars to your classpath for Pig.