https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-save-a-dataframe-as-ORC-file/m-p/144702#M107281 While saving a data frame in ORC format, i am getting below mentioned exception in my logs. <PRE>java.lang.AssertionError: assertion failed: The ORC data source can only be used with HiveContext</PRE><P>I tried below mentioned alternatives but none of them worked. </P><P>sampleData.write().mode(SaveMode.Append).format("orc").save("/tmp/my_orc"); sampleData.write().mode(SaveMode.Append).saveAsTable("MFRTable")</P> <P>I am using Spark 1.6.1.2.4.2.12-1, and has below mentioned dependency added in my project </P><P>&lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.spark&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;spark-sql_2.10&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;1.6.1.2.4.2.12-1&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt;</P><P>but then i am not able to find HiveContext object. Wondering which version should i be using ?</P><P>Thanks. </P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:50:28 GMT akhil_bansal 2022-09-16T10:50:28Z