I guess you have read: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HBaseIntegration#HBaseIntegration-HiveMAPtoHBaseColumnFamily
where example for column family mapping is given. If you need to map column qualifier, probably poll hive mailing list on syntax. FYI On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Viswanathan J <jayamviswanat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create external hive table to map hbase table and i'm facing > issue in the column mapping because the column qualifier is in byte array > as below, how to define/map this. > > eg., > > column=cf:\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00, timestamp=1455990558044 > > -- > Regards, > Viswa.J >