Hi Jean-Daniel Thanks for the quick reply. Guava is already in my auxpath.
I guess I have found a solution by adding protobuff to the auxpath. Basically instead of: ./bin/hive --auxpath $HIVE_HOME/lib/hive-hbase-handler-0.9.0.jar, $HBASE_HOME/hbase-0.94.2.jar, $HBASE_HOME/lib/zookeeper-3.4.3.jar, $HBASE_HOME/lib/guava-11.0.2.jar I have added at the end $HBASE_HOME/lib/protobuf-java-2.4.0a.jar at the end it works but I'm sure it's not a good way of going about this. Maybe I have not put something in the hive-site.xml. If anyone knows what I might have done wrong.
