title: Spark 1.5.2 and Hadoop 2.4 (Hive 2) version compatibility
body: <p>I am new in using Spark with Hadoop.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Current Scenario:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have already configured Spark on 4 node cluster using pre-built binary "spark-1.5.2-bin-hadoop2.6". </p>
  
  <p>There is also one Hadoop-2.4 cluster with 4 nodes present in my environment.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What I want:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am planning to use Spark RDD processing using Hive HQL on the data present in hdfs in Hadoop cluster.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Queries</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Do I need to reconfigure spark cluster using  "spark-1.5.2-bin-hadoop2.4" binary or the current one will work.</p></li>
  <li><p>Is it a good practice to work on Spark over Hadoop with Spark and Hadoop on two different clusters (but under same subnet in cloud).</p></li>
  </ol>