Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/8713#issuecomment-139670064 Another reason for the isolation is the ability to connect to multiple metastores. Since hive uses global static state, new classloaders is likely the only way to accomplish this. Why are you trying to create more than one HiveContext in a JVM.
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