Getting You must *build Spark with Hive*. Export 'SPARK_HIVE=true' See full stack [2] below.
I'm using Spark 1.6 that comes with CDH 5.8.3. So it's definitely compiled with Hive. We use Jupyter notebooks without problems in the same environment. Using Zeppelin 0.6.2, downloaded as zeppelin-0.6.2-bin-all.tgz from from apache.org Is Zeppelin compiled with Hive too? I guess so. Not sure what else is missing. Tried to play with ZEPPELIN_SPARK_USEHIVECONTEXT but it does not make difference. [1] $ cat zeppelin-env.sh export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/java7 export SPARK_HOME=/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark export SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTIONS="--principal xxxx --keytab yyy --conf spark.driver.memory=7g --conf spark.executor.cores=2 --conf spark.executor.memory=8g" export SPARK_APP_NAME="Zeppelin notebook" export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf export HIVE_CONF_DIR=/etc/hive/conf export HIVE_HOME=/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/hive export PYSPARK_PYTHON="/opt/cloudera/parcels/Anaconda/bin/python2" export PYTHONPATH="/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python:/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.9-src.zip" export MASTER="yarn-client" export ZEPPELIN_SPARK_USEHIVECONTEXT=true [2] You must build Spark with Hive. Export 'SPARK_HIVE=true' and run build/sbt assembly Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/zeppelin_pyspark-9143637669637506477.py", line 267, in <module> raise Exception(traceback.format_exc()) Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/zeppelin_pyspark-9143637669637506477.py", line 265, in <module> exec(code) File "<stdin>", line 9, in <module> File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/context.py", line 580, in sql [3] Also have correct symlinks in zeppelin_home/conf for - hive-site.xml - hdfs-site.xml - core-site.xml - yarn-site.xml Thank you, Ruslan Dautkhanov