Spark2 create hive external table

Hi, I am trying to connect to spark thrift server to create an external table. In my table DDL, I have a tbl property 'spark.sql.sources.provider' = 'parquet', but I am getting an error "Cannot persistent into hive metastore as table property keys may not start with 'spark.sql.':

Writing empty Dataframes doesn't save any _metadata files in Spark 1.5.1 and 1.6

I tried the following code in both Spark 1.5.1 and Spark 1.6.0: import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{ StructType, StructField, StringType, IntegerType} import org.apache.spark.sql.Row val schema = StructType( StructField("k", StringType, true) :: StructField("v", IntegerType, false) ::

Is Hive CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS atomic

Hi, I am using hiveContext.sql("create database if not exists ") to create a hive db. Is this statement atomic? Thanks. Antonio. -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Is-Hive-CREATE-DATABASE-IF-NOT-EXISTS-atomic-tp26706.html Sent from the

create hive context in spark application

Hi, I am trying to connect to a hive metastore deployed in a oracle db. I have the hive configuration specified in the hive-site.xml. I put the hive-site.xml under $SPARK_HOME/conf. If I run spark-shell, everything works fine. I can create hive database, tables and query the tables. However,

TTL for saveAsObjectFile()

Hi, I am using RDD.saveAsObjectFile() to save the RDD dataset to Tachyon. In version 0.8, Tachyon will support for TTL for saved file. Is that supported from Spark as well? Is there a way I could specify an TTL for a saved object file? Thanks. Antonio. -- View this message in context: