Hi, If you are talking about running Hive in local mode without pointing to a $HADOOP_HOME I don't think it would work even if you include hadoop-core dependency in Hive classpath since in local mode Hive will use hadoop scripts present in $HADOOP_HOME/bin. I came across the same requirement recently and I got it working by changing the Hive local mode job submission code a bit to directly invoke hadoop without going through the hadoop script.
Regards Buddhika
