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dsnospam1 · ‎05-16-2018

Hi,

After installing HDP 2.6.3, I ran Pyspark in the terminal, then initiated a Spark Session, and tried to create a new database (see last line of code:

$ pyspark
> from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
> spark = SparkSession.builder.master("local").appName("test").enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate()
> spark.sql("show databases").show()
> spark.sql("create database if not exists NEW_DB")

However, PySpark threw an error where it was trying to create a database locally:

AnalysisException: 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(message:Unable to create database path file:/home/jdoe/spark-warehouse/new_db.db, failed to create database new_db);'

I wasn't trying to create a database locally. I was trying to create a database within Hive. Is there a configuration problem with HDP 2.6.3?

Please advise. Thanks.

falbani · ‎05-16-2018

@John Doe Could you try running on yarn client mode instead of local? I think this will help resolving the problem you have now.

$ pyspark --master yarn
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark =SparkSession.builder.appName("test").enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate()
spark.sql("show databases").show()
spark.sql("create database if not exists NEW_DB")

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HTH

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dsnospam1 · ‎05-18-2018

@Felix Albani,

Felix Albani

I would be glad to mark the answer as helpful, but don't know how to do that.

falbani · ‎05-18-2018

@John Doe When you like to accept an answer you should look for this

Then Accept

HTH

dsnospam1 · ‎05-18-2018

@Felix Albani

I would be glad to mark the answer as helpful, but don't know how to do that.

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