I have added the jar files successfully like this:
hive (testdb)> ADD JAR lib/hive-json-serde-0.3.jar; Added lib/hive-json-serde-0.3.jar to class path Added resource: lib/hive-json-serde-0.3.jar hive (testdb)> ADD JAR lib/json-path-0.5.4.jar; Added lib/json-path-0.5.4.jar to class path Added resource: lib/json-path-0.5.4.jar hive (testdb)> ADD JAR lib/json-smart-1.0.6.3.jar; Added lib/json-smart-1.0.6.3.jar to class path Added resource: lib/json-smart-1.0.6.3.jar After this i am getting this error: CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS twitter (tweet_id BIGINT,created_at STRING,text STRING,user_id BIGINT, user_screen_name STRING,user_lang STRING) ROW FORMAT SERDE "org.apache.hadoop.hive.contrib.serde2.JsonSerde" WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( "tweet_id"="$.id","created_at"="$.created_at","text"="$.text","user_id"="$.user.id","user_screen_name"="$.user.screen_name", "user_lang"="$.user.lang") LOCATION '/home/satish/data/twitter/input'; java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/jayway/jsonpath/PathUtil at org.apache.hadoop.hive.contrib.serde2.JsonSerde.initialize(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.getDeserializer(MetaStoreUtils.java:207) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getDeserializerFromMetaStore(Table.java:266) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getDeserializer(Table.java:259) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getCols(Table.java:585) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createTable(Hive.java:550) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.createTable(DDLTask.java:3698) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:253) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:57) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1336) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1122) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:935) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:755) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:613) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.jayway.jsonpath.PathUtil at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) ... 23 more FAILED: Execution Error, return code -101 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks Sai