Spark does not support Hive transactional tables very well. There is an open ticket regarding these issues in the Spark project's JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15348 , Hive transactional tables are not well supported. There is an open ticket regarding this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15348 "Spark does not support any feature of hive's transactional tables,you cannot use spark to delete/update a table and it also has problems reading the aggregated data when no compaction was done." ... View more