Prebuilt Spark 2.1.0 creates metastore_db folder and derby.log when launching spark-shell
I just upgraded from Spark 2.0.2 to Spark 2.1.0 (by downloading the prebuilt version for Hadoop 2.7&later). No Hive is installed. Upon launch of the spark-shell, the metastore_db/ folder and derby.log file are created at the launch location, together with a bunch of warning logs (which were not printed in the previous version). Closer inspection of the debug logs shows that Spark 2.1.0 tries to initialise a HiveMetastoreConnection : 17/01/13 09:14:44 INFO HiveUtils: Initializing HiveMetastoreConnection version 1.2.1 using Spark classes. Similar debug logs for Spark 2.0.2 do not show any