By default Spark 1.3 has bindings to Hive 0.13.1 though you can bind it to
Hive 0.12 if you specify it in the profile when building Spark as per
https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.0/building-spark.html.
If you are downloading a pre built version of Spark 1.3 - then by default,
it is set to Hive
Most likely you have an existing Hive installation with data in it. In this
case i was not able to get Spark 1.3 communicate with existing Hive meta
store. Hence when i read any table created in hive, Spark SQL used to
complain Data table not found
If you get it working, please share the steps.