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Marcelo Vanzin commented on HIVE-16484:
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It was mostly added for testing.
> Investigate SparkLauncher for HoS as alternative to bin/spark-submit
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> Key: HIVE-16484
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16484
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Spark
> Reporter: Sahil Takiar
> Assignee: Sahil Takiar
> Attachments: HIVE-16484.1.patch, HIVE-16484.2.patch,
> HIVE-16484.3.patch
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> The {{SparkClientImpl#startDriver}} currently looks for the {{SPARK_HOME}}
> directory and invokes the {{bin/spark-submit}} script, which spawns a
> separate process to run the Spark application.
> {{SparkLauncher}} was added in SPARK-4924 and is a programatic way to launch
> Spark applications.
> I see a few advantages:
> * No need to spawn a separate process to launch a HoS --> lower startup time
> * Simplifies the code in {{SparkClientImpl}} --> easier to debug
> * {{SparkLauncher#startApplication}} returns a {{SparkAppHandle}} which
> contains some useful utilities for querying the state of the Spark job
> ** It also allows the launcher to specify a list of job listeners
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