diff --git a/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/TableReader.scala b/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/TableReader.scala
index 3e0d44160c8a1..21d94719d67e1 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/TableReader.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/TableReader.scala
@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ class HadoopTableReader(
    */
   private def createHadoopRDD(localTableDesc: TableDesc, inputPathStr: String): RDD[Writable] = {
     val inputFormatClazz = localTableDesc.getInputFileFormatClass
-    if (classOf[newInputClass[_, _]].isAssignableFrom(inputFormatClazz)) {
+    if (!inputFormatClazz.getName.
+      equalsIgnoreCase("org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HiveHBaseTableInputFormat")
+      && classOf[newInputClass[_, _]].isAssignableFrom(inputFormatClazz)) {
       createNewHadoopRDD(localTableDesc, inputPathStr)
     } else {
       createOldHadoopRDD(localTableDesc, inputPathStr)