diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b67a2477..1e8fdb9ac 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - hbase: Add hadoop-azure.jar to the lib directory to support the Azure Blob Filesystem and
   the Azure Data Lake Storage ([#853]).
 - kafka: Add cyrus-sasl-gssapi package for kerberos ([#874]).
+- spark: Add HBase connector ([#878]).
 
 ### Changed
 
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 [#868]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/868
 [#874]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/874
 [#877]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/877
+[#878]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/878
 [#879]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/879
 
 ## [24.7.0] - 2024-07-24
diff --git a/spark-k8s/Dockerfile b/spark-k8s/Dockerfile
index c166d6e54..b62fc2ada 100644
--- a/spark-k8s/Dockerfile
+++ b/spark-k8s/Dockerfile
@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.8.1@sha256:e87caa74dcb7d46cd820352bfea12591f3dba3ddc4285e19c7dcd13359f7cefd
 
-FROM stackable/image/java-devel as builder
+# hadoop-builder: Provides Hadoop libraries
+FROM stackable/image/hadoop AS hadoop-builder
+
+# hbase-builder: Provides HBase libraries
+FROM stackable/image/hbase AS hbase-builder
+
+# spark-source-builder: Download the Spark source code into
+# /stackable/spark and apply the patches
+FROM stackable/image/java-devel as spark-source-builder
 
 ARG PRODUCT
-ARG HADOOP_LONG_VERSION
-ARG AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE
-ARG AZURE_STORAGE
-ARG AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE
-ARG JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_XML
-ARG STAX2_API
-ARG WOODSTOX_CORE
-ARG JMX_EXPORTER
-ARG TARGETARCH
-ARG TINI
 
 RUN <<EOF
 microdnf update
@@ -27,8 +25,135 @@ EOF
 
 WORKDIR /stackable
 
-COPY --chown=stackable:stackable spark-k8s/stackable/patches/apply_patches.sh /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/patches/apply_patches.sh
-COPY --chown=stackable:stackable spark-k8s/stackable/patches/${PRODUCT} /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/patches/${PRODUCT}
+RUN <<EOF
+curl https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/spark/spark-${PRODUCT}.tgz \
+    | tar xz
+ln -s spark-${PRODUCT} spark
+EOF
+
+WORKDIR /stackable/spark
+
+COPY --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    spark-k8s/stackable/patches/apply_patches.sh \
+    patches/apply_patches.sh
+COPY --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    spark-k8s/stackable/patches/${PRODUCT} \
+    patches/${PRODUCT}
+
+RUN patches/apply_patches.sh ${PRODUCT}
+
+
+# hbase-connectors-builder: Build the Spark HBase connector and copy
+# required JARs into /stackable/spark/jars
+FROM stackable/image/java-devel as hbase-connectors-builder
+
+ARG PRODUCT
+ARG HADOOP
+ARG HBASE
+ARG HBASE_CONNECTOR
+
+WORKDIR /stackable
+
+# Download the hbase-connectors source code
+RUN <<EOF
+curl https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/hbase-connectors/hbase-connectors_${HBASE_CONNECTOR}.tar.gz \
+    | tar xz
+ln -s hbase-connectors-rel-${HBASE_CONNECTOR} hbase-connectors
+EOF
+
+# Copy the pom.xml file from the patched Spark source code to read the
+# versions used by Spark. The pom.xml defines child modules which are
+# not required and not copied, therefore mvn must be called with the
+# parameter --non-recursive.
+COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=spark-source-builder \
+    /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
+    spark/
+
+WORKDIR /stackable/hbase-connectors/spark
+
+RUN <<EOF
+# Building the hbase-connectors with JDK 17 is not yet supported, see
+# https://github.com/apache/hbase-connectors/pull/132.
+# As there are no JDK profiles, access to the non-public elements must
+# be enabled with --add-opens, see https://openjdk.org/jeps/403 and
+# https://openjdk.org/jeps/261#Breaking-encapsulation.
+export JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS="\
+    --add-opens java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED \
+    --add-opens java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED"
+
+# Get the Scala version used by Spark
+SCALA_VERSION=$( \
+    mvn --quiet --non-recursive --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
+    org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.5.0:evaluate \
+    -DforceStdout \
+    -Dexpression='project.properties(scala.version)')
+
+# Get the Scala binary version used by Spark
+SCALA_BINARY_VERSION=$( \
+    mvn --quiet --non-recursive --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
+    org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.5.0:evaluate \
+    -DforceStdout \
+    -Dexpression='project.properties(scala.binary.version)')
+
+# Build the Spark HBase connector
+# Skip the tests because the MiniHBaseCluster does not get ready for
+# whatever reason:
+#   Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Master not active after 30000ms
+#     at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.JVMClusterUtil.waitForEvent(JVMClusterUtil.java:221)
+#     at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.JVMClusterUtil.startup(JVMClusterUtil.java:177)
+#     at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.LocalHBaseCluster.startup(LocalHBaseCluster.java:407)
+#     at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MiniHBaseCluster.init(MiniHBaseCluster.java:250)
+mvn \
+    --batch-mode \
+    --no-transfer-progress \
+    --define spark.version="${PRODUCT}" \
+    --define scala.version="${SCALA_VERSION}" \
+    --define scala.binary.version="${SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}" \
+    --define hadoop-three.version="${HADOOP}" \
+    --define hbase.version="${HBASE}" \
+    --define skipTests \
+    clean package
+EOF
+
+WORKDIR /stackable/spark/jars
+
+RUN <<EOF
+ln -s /stackable/hbase-connectors/spark/hbase-spark/target/hbase-spark-${HBASE_CONNECTOR}.jar
+
+# Download log4j-slf4j-impl-x.x.x.jar containing the StaticLoggerBinder
+# which is required by the connector.
+# Spark contains only log4j-slf4j2-impl-x.x.x.jar but not
+# log4j-slf4j-impl-x.x.x.jar. It is okay to have both JARs in the
+# classpath as long as they have the same version.
+mvn --quiet --non-recursive --file /stackable/spark/pom.xml \
+    dependency:copy \
+    -Dartifact=org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j-impl:'${log4j.version}' \
+    -DoutputDirectory=.
+EOF
+
+
+# spark-builder: Build Spark into /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/dist,
+# download additional JARs and perform checks, like log4shell check.
+FROM stackable/image/java-devel as spark-builder
+
+ARG PRODUCT
+ARG HADOOP
+ARG HBASE
+ARG AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE
+ARG AZURE_STORAGE
+ARG AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE
+ARG JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_XML
+ARG STAX2_API
+ARG WOODSTOX_CORE
+ARG JMX_EXPORTER
+ARG TARGETARCH
+ARG TINI
+
+WORKDIR /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}
+
+COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=spark-source-builder \
+    /stackable/spark/ \
+    ./
 
 # >>> Build spark
 # Compiling the tests takes a lot of time, so we skip them
@@ -37,12 +162,9 @@ COPY --chown=stackable:stackable spark-k8s/stackable/patches/${PRODUCT} /stackab
 #
 # This will download it's own version of maven because the UBI version is too old:
 # 134.0 [ERROR] Detected Maven Version: 3.6.3 is not in the allowed range [3.8.8,)
-RUN curl https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/spark/spark-${PRODUCT}.tgz | tar -xzf - \
-    && cd spark-${PRODUCT} \
-    && ./patches/apply_patches.sh ${PRODUCT} \
-    && export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xss64m -Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1g" \
+RUN export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xss64m -Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1g" \
     && ./dev/make-distribution.sh \
-      -Dhadoop.version="$HADOOP_LONG_VERSION" \
+      -Dhadoop.version="$HADOOP" \
       -Dmaven.test.skip=true \
       -DskipTests \
       -P'hadoop-3' -Pkubernetes -Phive -Phive-thriftserver
@@ -55,12 +177,40 @@ RUN curl -o /usr/bin/tini "https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/tini/
 # We download these under dist so that log4shell checks them
 WORKDIR /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/dist/jars
 
-# Download various modules for Hadoop (e.g. support for s3a:// and abfs://)
-RUN curl -O https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/aws/hadoop-aws-${HADOOP_LONG_VERSION}.jar \
-    && curl -O https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/aws/aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE}.jar \
-    && curl -O https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP_LONG_VERSION}.jar \
-    && curl -O https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/azure-storage-${AZURE_STORAGE}.jar \
-    && curl -O https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/azure-keyvault-core-${AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE}.jar
+# Copy modules required for s3a://
+COPY --from=hadoop-builder --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib/hadoop-aws-${HADOOP}.jar \
+    /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib/aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE}.jar \
+    ./
+
+# Copy modules required for abfs://
+COPY --from=hadoop-builder --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP}.jar \
+    /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib/azure-storage-${AZURE_STORAGE}.jar \
+    /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib/azure-keyvault-core-${AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE}.jar \
+    ./
+
+# Copy the HBase connector including required modules
+COPY --from=hbase-connectors-builder --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    /stackable/spark/jars/* \
+    ./
+
+# Copy modules required to access HBase
+COPY --from=hbase-builder --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    /stackable/hbase/lib/shaded-clients/hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop-${HBASE}.jar \
+    /stackable/hbase/lib/shaded-clients/hbase-shaded-mapreduce-${HBASE}.jar \
+    ./
+# Copy modules required to access HBase if $HBASE == 2.4.x
+COPY --from=hbase-builder --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    /stackable/hbase/lib/client-facing-thirdparty/htrace-core4-*-incubating.jar \
+    /stackable/hbase/lib/client-facing-thirdparty/slf4j-reload4j-*.jar \
+    ./
+# Copy modules required to access HBase if $HBASE == 2.6.x
+COPY --from=hbase-builder --chown=stackable:stackable \
+    /stackable/hbase/lib/client-facing-thirdparty/opentelemetry-api-*.jar \
+    /stackable/hbase/lib/client-facing-thirdparty/opentelemetry-context-*.jar \
+    /stackable/hbase/lib/client-facing-thirdparty/opentelemetry-semconv-*-alpha.jar \
+    ./
 
 WORKDIR /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/dist/extra-jars
 
@@ -93,6 +243,7 @@ COPY shared/log4shell_scanner /bin/log4shell_scanner
 RUN /bin/log4shell_scanner s /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/dist
 # ===
 
+
 FROM stackable/image/java-base as final
 
 ARG PRODUCT
@@ -115,12 +266,12 @@ RUN microdnf update && \
     hostname \
     # required for spark startup scripts
     procps \
-    python${PYTHON} \
-    python${PYTHON}-pip \
+    "python${PYTHON}" \
+    "python${PYTHON}-pip" \
     zip \
     # This is needed by the Spark UI to display process information using jps and jmap
     # Copying the binaries from the builder stage failed.
-    java-${JAVA_VERSION}-openjdk-devel \
+    "java-${JAVA_VERSION}-openjdk-devel" \
     && microdnf clean all \
     && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
 
@@ -134,10 +285,10 @@ ENV PATH=$SPARK_HOME:$PATH:/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/jre/bin:$HOME/.local/b
 ENV PYSPARK_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python
 ENV PYTHONPATH=$SPARK_HOME/python:$PYTHONPATH
 
-COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=builder /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/dist /stackable/spark
-COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=builder /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/assembly/target/bom.json /stackable/spark/spark-${PRODUCT}.cdx.json
-COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=builder /stackable/jmx /stackable/jmx
-COPY --from=builder /usr/bin/tini /usr/bin/tini
+COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=spark-builder /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/dist /stackable/spark
+COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=spark-builder /stackable/spark-${PRODUCT}/assembly/target/bom.json /stackable/spark/spark-${PRODUCT}.cdx.json
+COPY --chown=stackable:stackable --from=spark-builder /stackable/jmx /stackable/jmx
+COPY --from=spark-builder /usr/bin/tini /usr/bin/tini
 
 RUN ln -s "/stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER}.jar" /stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent.jar \
     # Symlink example jar, so that we can easily use it in tests
diff --git a/spark-k8s/upload_new_hbase-connector_version.sh b/spark-k8s/upload_new_hbase-connector_version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..6cc74533a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark-k8s/upload_new_hbase-connector_version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+VERSION=${1:?"Missing version number argument (arg 1)"}
+NEXUS_USER=${2:?"Missing Nexus username argument (arg 2)"}
+
+read -r -s -p "Nexus Password: " NEXUS_PASSWORD
+echo ""
+
+# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4632028/how-to-create-a-temporary-directory
+# Find the directory name of the script
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+
+# the temp directory used, within $DIR
+WORK_DIR=$(mktemp -d -p "$DIR")
+
+# check if tmp dir was created
+if [[ ! "$WORK_DIR" || ! -d "$WORK_DIR" ]]; then
+  echo "Could not create temp dir"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# deletes the temp directory
+function cleanup {
+  rm -rf "$WORK_DIR"
+}
+
+# register the cleanup function to be called on the EXIT signal
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+cd "$WORK_DIR" || exit
+
+download_url="https://github.com/apache/hbase-connectors/archive/refs/tags/rel/${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+
+tar_gz_file="hbase-connectors_${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+
+echo "Downloading hbase-connectors source from ${download_url}"
+curl --fail -L -o "${tar_gz_file}" "${download_url}"
+
+echo "Uploading hbase-connectors source to Nexus"
+EXIT_STATUS=0
+curl --fail -u "$NEXUS_USER:$NEXUS_PASSWORD" --upload-file "${tar_gz_file}" 'https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/hbase-connectors/' || EXIT_STATUS=$?
+
+if [ $EXIT_STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Upload failed"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Successfully uploaded version $VERSION of hbase-connectors to Nexus"
+echo "https://repo.stackable.tech/service/rest/repository/browse/packages/hbase-connectors/"
diff --git a/spark-k8s/versions.py b/spark-k8s/versions.py
index bb9ad5b72..f586a2775 100644
--- a/spark-k8s/versions.py
+++ b/spark-k8s/versions.py
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
         "java-base": "17",
         "java-devel": "17",
         "python": "3.11",
-        "hadoop_long_version": "3.3.4",  # https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/6a5747d66e53ed0d934cdd9ca5c9bd9fde6868e6/pom.xml#L125
+        "hadoop": "3.3.4",  # https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/6a5747d66e53ed0d934cdd9ca5c9bd9fde6868e6/pom.xml#L125
+        "hbase": "2.4.18",  # current Stackable LTS version
         "aws_java_sdk_bundle": "1.12.262",  # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.3.4
         "azure_storage": "7.0.1",  # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-azure/3.3.4
         "azure_keyvault_core": "1.0.0",  # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.azure/azure-storage/7.0.1
@@ -14,13 +15,15 @@
         "vector": "0.41.1",
         "jmx_exporter": "1.0.1",
         "tini": "0.19.0",
+        "hbase_connector": "1.0.1",
     },
     {
         "product": "3.5.2",
         "java-base": "17",
         "java-devel": "17",
         "python": "3.11",
-        "hadoop_long_version": "3.3.4",  # https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/6a5747d66e53ed0d934cdd9ca5c9bd9fde6868e6/pom.xml#L125
+        "hadoop": "3.3.4",  # https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/6a5747d66e53ed0d934cdd9ca5c9bd9fde6868e6/pom.xml#L125
+        "hbase": "2.4.18",  # current Stackable LTS version
         "aws_java_sdk_bundle": "1.12.262",  # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.3.4
         "azure_storage": "7.0.1",  # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-azure/3.3.4
         "azure_keyvault_core": "1.0.0",  # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.azure/azure-storage/7.0.1
@@ -30,5 +33,6 @@
         "vector": "0.41.1",
         "jmx_exporter": "1.0.1",
         "tini": "0.19.0",
+        "hbase_connector": "1.0.1",
     },
 ]