Prerequisites for using the Cloudera Distribution as a Hadoop target
If you are replicating to a Cloudera Hadoop Distribution and you want to use Snappy compression and/or set a File Format that is not Text, you first need to install Cloudera's Hive ODBC driver on the Replicate Server machine. Then configure the Hadoop target endpoint to access Hive using ODBC. For more information on this setting, see Setting general connection properties