Like the error notes, support for writing from a stream to a JDBC sink is not present in Spark yet: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-19478 Take a look at this past thread where an alternative, more direct approach is discussed: http://community.cloudera.com/t5/Advanced-Analytics-Apache-Spark/Spark-Streaming-save-output-to-mysql-DB/td-p/25607 ... View more