This JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12366 moved the heartbeat logic from the engine to the client. AFAIK this was the only issue preventing working with Spark as an engine. That JIRA was released in 2.0.
I want to stress that to my knowledge no one has tested this combination of features, so there may be other problem. But at least this issue has been resolved. Alan. > On Jun 2, 2016, at 01:54, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Spark does not support transactions because as I understand there is a piece > in the execution side that needs to send heartbeats to Hive metastore saying > a transaction is still alive". That has not been implemented in Spark yet to > my knowledge." > > Any idea on the timelines when we are going to have support for transactions > in Spark for Hive ORC tables. This will really be useful. > > > Thanks, > > > Dr Mich Talebzadeh > > LinkedIn > https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw > > http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com >
