You can use thrift server for this purpose then test it with beeline. See doc: https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#running-the-thrift-jdbc-server
From: Anas Mosaad [mailto:anas.mos...@incorta.com] Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 11:01 AM To: user@spark.apache.org Subject: Spark-SQL JDBC driver Hello Everyone, I'm brand new to spark and was wondering if there's a JDBC driver to access spark-SQL directly. I'm running spark in standalone mode and don't have hadoop in this environment. -- Best Regards/أطيب المنى, Anas Mosaad