currently saveAsTable will create Hive Internal table by default see here <http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#saving-to-persistent-tables>
If you want to save it as external table, use saveAsParquetFile and create an external hive table on that parquet file. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Fengdong Yu <fengdo...@everstring.com> wrote: > If your RDD is JSON format, that’s easy. > > val df = sqlContext.read.json(rdd) > df.saveAsTable(“your_table_name") > > > > > On Dec 7, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Divya Gehlot <divya.htco...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am new bee to Spark. > > Could somebody guide me how can I persist my spark RDD results in Hive > using SaveAsTable API. > > Would appreciate if you could provide the example for hive external > table. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > >
