You don't need multiple contexts to do this: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#jdbc-to-other-databases
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Reading from multiple sources within the same application? > > How would you connect to Hive for some data and then reach out to lets say > Oracle or DB2 for some other data that you may want but isn’t available on > your cluster? > > > On Apr 12, 2016, at 10:52 AM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> > wrote: > > You can, but I'm not sure why you would want to. If you want to isolate > different users just use hiveContext.newSession(). > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Natu Lauchande <nlaucha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to have both a sqlContext and a hiveContext in the same >> application ? >> >> If yes would there be any performance pernalties of doing so. >> >> Regards, >> Natu >> > > >
