The warehouse and the metastore directories are two different things. The metastore holds the schema information about the tables and will by default be a local directory. With javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL you can configure it to be something like mysql. The warehouse directory is the default location where the actual contents of the tables is stored. What directory are seeing created locally?
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:49 AM, nikroy16 <nikro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the response... hive-site.xml is in the classpath so that > doesn't > seem to be the issue. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/HiveContext-is-creating-metastore-warehouse-locally-instead-of-in-hdfs-tp10838p10871.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
