Integrating Hbase with Hive: Register Hbase table

Question

I am using Hortonworks Sandbox 2.0 which contains the following version of Hbase and Hive

Component       Version
------------------------
Apache Hadoop     2.2.0
Apache Hive      0.12.0
Apache HBase     0.96.0
Apache ZooKeeper  3.4.5

...and I am trying to register my hbase table into hive using the following query

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Document_Table_Hive (key STRING, author STRING, category STRING) STORED BY ‘org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler’ WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (‘hbase.columns.mapping’ = ‘:key,metadata:author,categories:category’) TBLPROPERTIES (‘hbase.table.name’ = ‘Document’);

This does not work, I get the following Exception:

2014-03-26 09:14:57,341 ERROR exec.DDLTask (DDLTask.java:execute(435)) – java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseConfiguration
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler.setConf(HBaseStorageHandler.java:249)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:73)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:133)

2014-03-26 09:14:57,368 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(419)) – FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseConfiguration

I have already created the Hbase Table “Document” and the describe command gives the following description

‘Document’,
{NAME => ‘categories’,..},
{NAME => ‘comments’,..},
{NAME => ‘metadata’,..}

I have tried the following things

1. add hive.aux.jars.path in hive-site.xml

   hive.aux.jars.path
   file:///etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml,file:///usr/lib/hbase/lib/hbase-common-0.96.0.2.0.6.0-76-hadoop2.jar,file:///usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-hbase-handler-0.12.0.2.0.6.0-76.jar,file:///usr/lib/hbase/lib/hbase-client-0.96.0.2.0.6.0-76-hadoop2.jar,file:///usr/lib/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.5.2.0.6.0-76.jar
   

2. add jars using hive add jar command

   add jar /usr/lib/hbase/lib/hbase-common-0.96.0.2.0.6.0-76-hadoop2.jar;
   add jar /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-hbase-handler-0.12.0.2.0.6.0-76.jar;
   add jar /usr/lib/hbase/lib/hbase-client-0.96.0.2.0.6.0-76-hadoop2.jar;
   add jar /usr/lib/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.5.2.0.6.0-76.jar;
   add file /etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml
   

3. specify the hadoop_classpath

   export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=/etc/hbase/conf:/usr/lib/hbase/lib/hbase-common-0.96.0.2.0.6.0-76-hadoop2:/usr/lib/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.5.2.0.6.0-76.jar
   

And it is still not working!

How can I add the jars in the hive classpath so that it finds the hbaseConfiguration class, or is it an entirely different issue?

Answer 1

No need to copy the entire jars. Just hbase-*.jar , zookeeper*.jar, hive-hbase-handler*.jar would be enough. By default all hadoop related jars would be added to hadoop classpath, Since hive internally uses hadoop command to execute.

Or

Instead of copying hbase jars to hive library by specifying HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH environment variable to /usr/lib/hbase/lib/ in /etc/hive/conf/hive-env.sh will also do.

The second approach is more suggested than first