I have a relatively easy solution to this problem. I just created a PairRDD of the rows that I wanted to update. then for every row, I just created a Delete and a Put Object. so, it deletes the old record and inserts a new one. the only thing that should be taken care of is the Put object should includes the new row key. than just call saveAsNewAPIHadoopDataset on the new RDD. ... View more