Spark connects directly to the Hive metastore service in order to manage table definitions and locations and such. If you are using the CLI interfaces and turn on INFO level logging, you can see when you instantiate a HiveContext that it is connecting to the Hive Metastore and the URL its using for the connection.
Hope this helps, Nick Nicholas Szandor Hakobian, Ph.D. Senior Data Scientist Rally Health nicholas.hakob...@rallyhealth.com On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:06 PM, infa elance <infa.ela...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > When using spark-shell my understanding is spark connects to hive through > metastore. > The question i have is does spark connect to metastore , is it JDBC? > > Thanks and Regards, > Ajay. >
