Hi, This is an ORC transactional table
Hive 2, Spark 1.6.1 hive> show create table payees; OK CREATE TABLE `payees`( `transactiondescription` string, `hits` int, `hashtag` string) CLUSTERED BY ( transactiondescription) INTO 256 BUCKETS ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcSerde' STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcOutputFormat' LOCATION 'hdfs://rhes564:9000/user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees' TBLPROPERTIES ( 'COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE'='{\"BASIC_STATS\":\"true\"}', 'numFiles'='887', 'numRows'='620', 'orc.compress'='ZLIB', 'rawDataSize'='0', 'totalSize'='844236', 'transactional'='true', 'transient_lastDdlTime'='1470085025') With a number of delta files due to updates drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-31 17:50 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/.hive-staging_hive_2016-07-31_17-50-32_170_8812909383478460781-1 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-31 17:52 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/.hive-staging_hive_2016-07-31_17-52-07_293_1488464319826411209-1 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-31 17:53 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/.hive-staging_hive_2016-07-31_17-53-50_895_2719298331883820815-1 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-31 17:55 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/.hive-staging_hive_2016-07-31_17-55-05_534_3195777747078132526-1 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-31 20:26 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/.hive-staging_hive_2016-07-31_20-25-47_734_1633377491601926952-1 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-29 21:01 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/delta_0000099_0000099_0000 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-29 21:02 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/delta_0000100_0000100_0000 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-07-29 21:20 /user/hive/warehouse/accounts.db/payees/delta_0000101_0000101_0000 Spark fails reading this table. What options do I have here? And interestingly Hive running on Spark engine and its works fine Thanks Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn * https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com *Disclaimer:* Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for any loss, damage or destruction of data or any other property which may arise from relying on this email's technical content is explicitly disclaimed. The author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages arising from such loss, damage or destruction.