diff --git a/cli/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/workload/MultipleSuiteKickoff.scala b/cli/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/workload/MultipleSuiteKickoff.scala
index 76d014b8..f7755c72 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/workload/MultipleSuiteKickoff.scala
+++ b/cli/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/workload/MultipleSuiteKickoff.scala
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ object MultipleSuiteKickoff {
   private def runSuitesSerially(suiteSeq: Seq[Suite], spark: SparkSession): Unit =
     suiteSeq.foreach(SuiteKickoff.run(_, spark))
 
-  private def createSparkContext: SparkSession = SparkSession.builder.enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate
+  private def createSparkContext: SparkSession = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate
 }
diff --git a/project/Dependencies.scala b/project/Dependencies.scala
index f12e65a5..80ece375 100644
--- a/project/Dependencies.scala
+++ b/project/Dependencies.scala
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ object Dependencies {
   // Libraries
   val sparkDeps = Seq(
     "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core"  % sparkVersion % "provided",
-    "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-hive"  % sparkVersion % "provided",
     "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-mllib" % sparkVersion % "provided",
     "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql"   % sparkVersion % "provided",
     "com.databricks"   %% "spark-avro"  % "4.0.0"