scala - Can we able to use mulitple sparksessions to access two different Hive servers

Question

I have a scenario to compare two different tables source and destination from two separate remote hive servers, can we able to use two SparkSessions something like I tried below:-

 val spark = SparkSession.builder().master("local")
  .appName("spark remote")
  .config("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL", "jdbc:mysql://192.168.175.160:3306/metastore?useSSL=false")
  .config("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName", "hiveroot")
  .config("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword", "hivepassword")
  .config("hive.exec.scratchdir", "/tmp/hive/${user.name}")
  .config("hive.metastore.uris", "thrift://192.168.175.160:9083")
  .enableHiveSupport()
  .getOrCreate()

SparkSession.clearActiveSession()
SparkSession.clearDefaultSession()

val sparkdestination = SparkSession.builder()
  .config("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL", "jdbc:mysql://192.168.175.42:3306/metastore?useSSL=false")
  .config("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName", "hiveroot")
  .config("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword", "hivepassword")
  .config("hive.exec.scratchdir", "/tmp/hive/${user.name}")
  .config("hive.metastore.uris", "thrift://192.168.175.42:9083")
  .enableHiveSupport()
  .getOrCreate() 

I tried with SparkSession.clearActiveSession() and SparkSession.clearDefaultSession() but it isn't working, throwing the error below:

Hive: Failed to access metastore. This class should not accessed in runtime.
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient

is there any other way we can achieve accessing two hive tables using multiple SparkSessions or SparkContext.

Thanks

Answer 1

Look at SparkSession getOrCreate method

which state that

gets an existing [[SparkSession]] or, if there is no existing one, creates a new one based on the options set in this builder.

This method first checks whether there is a valid thread-local SparkSession, and if yes, return that one. It then checks whether there is a valid global default SparkSession, and if yes, return that one. If no valid global default SparkSession exists, the method creates a new SparkSession and assigns the newly created SparkSession as the global default. In case an existing SparkSession is returned, the config options specified in this builder will be applied to the existing SparkSession.

That's the reason its returning first session and its configurations.

Please go through the docs to find out alternative ways to create session..

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I'm working on <2 spark version. So I am not sure how to create new session with out collision of configuration exactly..

But, here is useful test case i.e SparkSessionBuilderSuite.scala to do that- DIY..

Example method in that test case

test("use session from active thread session and propagate config options") {
    val defaultSession = SparkSession.builder().getOrCreate()
    val activeSession = defaultSession.newSession()
    SparkSession.setActiveSession(activeSession)
    val session = SparkSession.builder().config("spark-config2", "a").getOrCreate()

    assert(activeSession != defaultSession)
    assert(session == activeSession)
    assert(session.conf.get("spark-config2") == "a")
    assert(session.sessionState.conf == SQLConf.get)
    assert(SQLConf.get.getConfString("spark-config2") == "a")
    SparkSession.clearActiveSession()

    assert(SparkSession.builder().getOrCreate() == defaultSession)
    SparkSession.clearDefaultSession()
  }