Using - hbase_connectors- hbase-spark.jar results in following exception - 23/02/07 12:29:58 Driver-Driverid ERROR ApplicationMaster: User class threw exception: java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.HBaseRelation.<init>(DefaultSource.scala:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.DefaultSource.createRelation(DefaultSource.scala:78) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.SaveIntoDataSourceCommand.run(SaveIntoDataSourceCommand.scala:45) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.sideEffectResult$lzycompute(commands.scala:70) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.sideEffectResult(commands.scala:68) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.doExecute(commands.scala:86) To resolve this error, set - hbase.spark.use.hbasecontext to false Example - personDS . write . format ( "org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark" ) . option ( "hbase.columns.m