diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e870cb505..11bff20f3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@
             'tldextract>=1.5.1',
         ],
         'hbase': [
-            'happybase>=1.0.0'
+            'happybase>=1.0.0',
+            'thriftpy2'
         ],
         'zeromq': [
             'pyzmq',