public static void assertSupportsTableSnapshots() {
    if (!SUPPORTS_TABLE_SNAPSHOTS) {
      throw new RuntimeException("This version of HBase does not support Hive over table " +
        "snapshots. Please upgrade to at least HBase 0.98.3 or later. See HIVE-6584 for details.");
    }
  }
Return true when the HBase runtime supports {@link HiveHBaseTableSnapshotInputFormat}.
hbase-handler/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/hbase/HBaseTableSnapshotInputFormatUtil.java