Known Issues in Apache Spark

Learn about the known issues in Spark, the impact or changes to the functionality, and the workaround.

CDPD-22670 and CDPD-23103: There are two configurations in Spark, "Atlas dependency" and "spark_lineage_enabled", which are conflicted. The issue is when Atlas dependency is turned off but spark_lineage_enabled is turned on.

Run Spark application, Spark will log some error message and cannot continue. That can be restored by correcting the configurations and restarting Spark component with distributing client configurations.

CDPD-217: HBase/Spark connectors are not supported

The Apache HBase Spark Connector (hbase-connectors/spark) and the Apache Spark - Apache HBase Connector (shc) are not supported in the initial CDP release.

None

CDPD-3038: Launching pyspark displays several HiveConf warning messages

When pyspark starts, several Hive configuration warning messages are displayed, similar to the following:

19/08/09 11:48:04 WARN conf.HiveConf: HiveConf of name hive.vectorized.use.checked.expressions does not exist
19/08/09 11:48:04 WARN conf.HiveConf: HiveConf of name hive.tez.cartesian-product.enabled does not exist

These errors can be safely ignored.

CDPD-2650: Spark cannot write ZSTD and LZ4 compressed Parquet to dynamically partitioned tables

Use a different compression algorithm.

CDPD-3293: Cannot create views (CREATE VIEW statement) from Spark

Apache Ranger in CDP disallows Spark users from running CREATE VIEW statements.

Create the view using Hive or Impala.

CDPD-3783: Cannot create databases from Spark

Attempting to create a database using Spark results in an error similar to the following:

org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException:
            org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(message:Permission denied: user [sparkuser] does not have [ALL] privilege on [hdfs://ip-10-1-2-3.cloudera.site:8020/tmp/spark/warehouse/spark_database.db]);

Create the database using Hive or Impala, or specify the external data warehouse location in the create command. For example:

sql("create database spark_database location '/warehouse/tablespace/external/hive/spark_database.db'")