Hivesever2 unable to load EsStorageHandler class from elasticsearch-hadoop
Add elasticsearch-Hadoop-2.0.1.jar file in $HIVE_HOME/lib folder.
Edit your query-create external table artist (...) row format serde 'org.elasticsearch.hadoop.hive.EsSerDe' stored by 'org.elasticsearch.hadoop.hive.EsStorageHandler' tblproperties ( 's.resource'='radio/artists','es.index.auto.create' = 'false');
Hope it might help..