You can take the "with user-provided Hadoop" binary from the download page, and yes that should mean it does not drag in a Hive dependency of its own.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:08 AM Xi Shen <davidshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to configure my Hive to use Spark 2 as its engine. According to > Hive's instruction, the Spark should build *without *Hadoop, nor Hive. I > could build my own, but for some reason I hope I could use a official > binary build. > > So I want to ask if the official Spark binary build labeled "with > user-provided Hadoop" also implies "user-provided Hive". > > -- > > > Thanks, > David S. >