the error ('Invalid method name: ‘alter_table_with_cascade’’) you are seeing
may be related to mismatch of hive versions. Error looks similar to one
reported in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12496
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 7:43 AM, Gourav Sengupta <gourav.sengu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Why are you trying to load data into HIVE and then access it via hiveContext?
> (by the way hiveContext tables are not visible in the sqlContext).
>
> Please read the data directly into a SPARK dataframe and then register it as
> a temp table to run queries on it.
>
>
> Regards,
> Gourav
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Afshartous, Nick <nafshart...@turbine.com
> <mailto:nafshart...@turbine.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> On AWS EMR 4.2 / Spark 1.5.2, I tried the example here
>
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.5.0/sql-programming-guide.html#hive-tables
> <https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.5.0/sql-programming-guide.html#hive-tables>
>
> to load data from a file into a Hive table.
>
>
> scala> val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext(sc)
>
> scala> sqlContext.sql("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS src (key INT, value
> STRING)")
>
> scala> sqlContext.sql("LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'data.txt' INTO TABLE src")
>
>
>
> The resultant error is below. Just wondering if I'm missing any steps in
> getting Hive setup on the AWS EMR Spark setup.
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> 16/03/02 14:14:04 INFO Hive: Renaming src: file:/home/hadoop/data.txt, dest:
> hdfs://ip-10-247-128-59.ec2.internal:8020/user/hive/warehouse/src/data_copy_2.txt,
> Status:true
> 16/03/02 14:14:04 WARN RetryingMetaStoreClient: MetaStoreClient lost
> connection. Attempting to reconnect.
> org.apache.thrift.TApplicationException: Invalid method name:
> 'alter_table_with_cascade'
>
