I don't think the one instance per machine is true. As long as you resolve the conflict issue such as port conflict, pid file, log file and etc, you can run multiple instances of spark thrift server.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Egor Pahomov <pahomov.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm using Spark Thrift JDBC server and 2 limitations are really bother > me - > > 1) One instance per machine > 2) Yarn client only(not yarn cluster) > > Are there any architectural reasons for such limitations? About > yarn-client I might understand in theory - master is the same process as a > server, so it makes some sense, but it's really inconvenient - I need a lot > of memory on my driver machine. Reasons for one instance per machine I do > not understand. > > -- > > > *Sincerely yoursEgor Pakhomov* > -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang
