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Sangita commented on HIVE-6425: ------------------------------- I was facing the same issue. It was resolved by doing following changes in hive meta store. -- log into Hive Metastore DB -- >alter table SERDE_PARAMS MODIFY PARAM_VALUE VARCHAR(400000000); https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/33311/number-column-limitations-in-hive-over-hbase-table.html > Unable to create external table with 3000+ columns > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6425 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6425 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Affects Versions: 0.10.0 > Environment: Linux, CDH 4.2.0 > Reporter: Anurag > Labels: patch > Attachments: Hive_Script.txt > > > While creating an external table in Hive to a table in HBase with 3000+ > columns, Hive shows up an error: > FAILED: Error in metadata: > MetaException(message:javax.jdo.JDODataStoreException: Put request failed : > INSERT INTO "SERDE_PARAMS" ("PARAM_VALUE","SERDE_ID","PARAM_KEY") VALUES > (?,?,?) > NestedThrowables: > org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.exceptions.MappedDatastoreException: INSERT INTO > "SERDE_PARAMS" ("PARAM_VALUE","SERDE_ID","PARAM_KEY") VALUES (?,?,?) ) > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)