@som You would have to be more explicit about versions of Hive, Spark etc, also explain "failing". There is nothing different about accessing Hive views via Hive context from Spark as it is the same as with tables. Anyhow, check the following: https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.3.2/bk_spark-guide/content/ch_spark-hive-access.html https://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/using-hive-with-orc-from-apache-spark/ Hopefully this helps. ... View more