To be sure that your user have access to warehouse location please try run something like below   val warehouseLocation = new File("spark-warehouse").getAbsolutePath val spark = SparkSession .builder() .appName("Spark Hive Example") .config("spark.sql.warehouse.dir", warehouseLocation) .enableHiveSupport() .getOrCreate()  Regards,   Bart ... View more

@Sankaranarayanan S We committed a fix yesterday. That makes the steps above unnecessary. I would urge you to attempt a build again. With this fix, you can use the default graph (JanusGraph). mvn clean install -DskipTests -Pdist,embedded-hbase-solr Once build is done, I uncompress tar produced in distro directory and then run bin/atlas_start.py. The initial initialization takes about 5 mins to happen due to Solr initializing indexes. Subsequent starts are quicker. Hope this helps. ... View more