title: Pyspark Dataframe: Unable to Save As Hive Table
body: <p>I am trying to use 'SaveAsTable' on a dataframe - our hive metastore is in the external RDS and I am trying to store data in a S3 - but is failing with the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o87.saveAsTable.
    : java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No Route to Host from  ip-10-174-20-142/10.174.20.142 to ip-10-174-26-239.ec2.internal:8020 failed on socket timeout exception: java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host; For more details see:  <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/NoRouteToHost" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/NoRouteToHost</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Here is the complete code and error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[hbohra@ip-10-174-20-142 ~]$ pyspark --files /etc/hive/conf/hive-site.xml 
  Python 2.7.12 (default, Sep  1 2016, 22:14:00) 
  [GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  Setting default log level to "WARN".
  To adjust logging level use sc.setLogLevel(newLevel).
  17/01/30 21:05:39 WARN yarn.Client: Neither spark.yarn.jars nor spark.yarn.archive is set, falling back to uploading libraries under SPARK_HOME.
  Welcome to
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  Using Python version 2.7.12 (default, Sep  1 2016 22:14:00)
  SparkSession available as 'spark'.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; from pyspark.sql.functions import lit
  &gt;&gt;&gt; df = sqlContext.read.json('s3://dl-rawdata-dev/reporting/impressions/platform/module/context/2017-01-27T00-00')
  &gt;&gt;&gt; asset_df = df.withColumn('cust_id', df['key']['cust_id']).withColumn('platform', lit('platform')).withColumn('context', lit('context')).withColumn('module', lit('context')).withColumn('impressions',df['metric']['impressions']).withColumn('orders', df['metric']['orders']).withColumn('subtotal', df['metric']['subtotal']).withColumn('adfee', df['metric']['adfee']).withColumn('clicks', df['metric']['clicks']).withColumn('views', df['metric']['views']).withColumn('report_date', lit('2017-01-27')).drop('key').drop('metric')
  &gt;&gt;&gt; asset_df.write.format('orc').partitionBy('report_date', 'platform').saveAsTable('hbohra.reporting', path='s3://dl-data-assets-dev/hbohra.db/reporting/', mode='overwrite')
  17/01/30 21:06:07 WARN command.CreateDataSourceTableUtils: Persisting partitioned data source relation `hbohra`.`reporting` into Hive metastore in Spark SQL specific format, which is NOT compatible with Hive. Input path(s): 
  s3://dl-data-assets-dev/hbohra.db/reporting
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/usr/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py", line 585, in saveAsTable
      self._jwrite.saveAsTable(name)
    File "/usr/lib/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.3-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 1133, in __call__
    File "/usr/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/utils.py", line 63, in deco
      return f(*a, **kw)
    File "/usr/lib/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.3-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py", line 319, in get_return_value
  py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o87.saveAsTable.
  : java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No Route to Host from  ip-10-174-20-142/10.174.20.142 to ip-10-174-26-239.ec2.internal:8020 failed on socket timeout exception: java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host; For more details see:  http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/NoRouteToHost
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
      at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.wrapWithMessage(NetUtils.java:792)
      at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.wrapException(NetUtils.java:758)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1479)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1412)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:229)
      at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.delete(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.delete(ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.java:540)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
      at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:191)
      at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:102)
      at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy13.delete(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.delete(DFSClient.java:2044)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$14.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:707)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$14.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:703)
      at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemLinkResolver.resolve(FileSystemLinkResolver.java:81)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.delete(DistributedFileSystem.java:703)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveExternalCatalog$$anonfun$createTable$1.apply$mcV$sp(HiveExternalCatalog.scala:185)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveExternalCatalog$$anonfun$createTable$1.apply(HiveExternalCatalog.scala:152)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveExternalCatalog$$anonfun$createTable$1.apply(HiveExternalCatalog.scala:152)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveExternalCatalog.withClient(HiveExternalCatalog.scala:72)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveExternalCatalog.createTable(HiveExternalCatalog.scala:152)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.catalog.SessionCatalog.createTable(SessionCatalog.scala:226)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.CreateDataSourceTableUtils$.createDataSourceTable(createDataSourceTables.scala:504)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.CreateDataSourceTableAsSelectCommand.run(createDataSourceTables.scala:259)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.sideEffectResult$lzycompute(commands.scala:58)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.sideEffectResult(commands.scala:56)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.doExecute(commands.scala:74)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$1.apply(SparkPlan.scala:115)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$1.apply(SparkPlan.scala:115)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$executeQuery$1.apply(SparkPlan.scala:136)
      at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:151)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.executeQuery(SparkPlan.scala:133)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.execute(SparkPlan.scala:114)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.toRdd$lzycompute(QueryExecution.scala:86)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.toRdd(QueryExecution.scala:86)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.saveAsTable(DataFrameWriter.scala:378)
      at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.saveAsTable(DataFrameWriter.scala:354)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
      at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:237)
      at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
      at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:280)
      at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
      at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
      at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:214)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  Caused by: java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host
      at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)
      at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:717)
      at org.apache.hadoop.net.SocketIOWithTimeout.connect(SocketIOWithTimeout.java:206)
      at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.connect(NetUtils.java:531)
      at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.connect(NetUtils.java:495)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.setupConnection(Client.java:614)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.setupIOstreams(Client.java:712)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.access$2900(Client.java:375)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.getConnection(Client.java:1528)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1451)
      ... 48 more
  </code></pre>