The spark thrift server allow you to run hive query in spark engine. It can be used as jdbc server.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:42 AM, ayan guha <guha.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to be dumb-head today, but what is the purpose of spark thriftserver > then? In other words, should I view spark thriftserver as a better version > of hive one (with Spark as execution engine instead of MR/Tez) OR should I > see it as a JDBC server? > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> spark thrift server is very similar with hive thrift server. You can use >> hive jdbc driver to access spark thrift server. AFAIK, all the features of >> hive thrift server are also available in spark thrift server. >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:39 AM, ayan guha <guha.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi All >>> >>> My understanding about thriftserver is to use it to expose pre-loaded >>> RDD/dataframes to tools who can connect through JDBC. >>> >>> Is there something like Spark JDBC server too? Does it do the same >>> thing? What is the difference between these two? >>> >>> How does Spark JDBC/Thrift supports security? Can we restrict certain >>> users to access certain dataframes and not the others? >>> >>> -- >>> Best Regards, >>> Ayan Guha >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards >> >> Jeff Zhang >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Ayan Guha > -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang
