You could replicate the configs or place the client-sided hbase-site.xml in the same directory as hive-site.xml for it to get picked up via the classpath by HBase centric classes.
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Zheng, Kai <kai.zh...@intel.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > In Hive over HBase case, how to configure and get Hive as HBase client to > reference hbase-site.xml (for example the one in /etc/hbase/conf)? > > > > In this case it’s necessary to do that since there’re some specific and > important client configurations for all HBase clients including Hive, and > such > > configuration shouldn’t be replicated/copied into hive-site.xml right. > > > > Thanks for your info. > > > > Regards, > > Kai > > -- Harsh J