It's not a configuration error but a well known conflict between guava 12 in Spark and guava 16 in spark cassandra driver. You can find some workarounds in spark cassandra mailing list
My workaround in zeppelin is to load in zeppelin dependency loader (spark interpreter config web page) the guava 16 lib. It's a big conflict that will probably be resolved in Spark 2.0 2016-04-13 13:32 GMT+02:00 Sanne de Roever <sanne.de.roe...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > My goal is to get Zeppelin 0.60 working with a remote Spark 1.6.1 and > Cassandra 3.4. > > The connection between Zeppelin and Spark works. Currently I'm stuck on a > Guava error, more specifically in the connection between Spark and > Cassandra: > > Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Detected Guava issue #1635 > which indicates that a version of Guava less than 16.01 is in use. This > introduces codec resolution issues and potentially other incompatibility > issues in the driver. Please upgrade to Guava 16.01 or later. > at com.datastax.driver.core.SanityChecks.checkGuava(SanityChecks.java:62) > at com.datastax.driver.core.SanityChecks.check(SanityChecks.java:36) > at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster.<clinit>(Cluster.java:67) > > A related issue has appeared earlier in Zeppelin: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-620 > > I'm configuring the Cassandra driver by setting the spark.jars property in > spark-defaults.conf: > > spark.jars > /u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/spark-core_2.10-1.6.1.jar,/u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/joda-convert-1.8.1.jar,/u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/cassandra-thrift-3.4.jar,/u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/joda-time-2.9.3.jar,/u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/spark-cassandra-connector-java_2.10-1.6.0-M1.jar,/u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/spark-cassandra-connector-1.6.0-M1-s_2.10.jar,/u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/guava-19.0.jar,/u01/app/zeppelin/spark-cassandra-libs/cassandra-driver-core-3.0.0.jar > > (There are no external connections in the data center) > > Is this a configuration error? > > Cheers, > > Sanne >