https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/query-hive-tables-with-spark-sql/m-p/145382#M107950 <P>Hi <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3093/oscaricardo4.html" nodeid="3093">@Jan J</A> </P><P>If you have already some cluster with Hive tables in it you don't need to create those tables with Spark once more. </P><P>You can just connect to existing. Please try next:</P><P>1. Pack your code in jar file and move somewhere to your cluster. Make Hive query calls from SparkSession.sql("YOUR_QUERY").</P><P>2. run spark-submit tool with 'driver-java-options' set to local metastore</P><PRE>--driver-java-options "-Dhive.metastore.uris=thrift://localhost:9083"</PRE><P>Best regards,</P><P>Olga</P> Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:58:43 GMT olastytsyuk 2017-02-23T00:58:43Z