Spark SQL fails with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/commons/compiler/UncheckedCompileException

The culprit is the library commons-compiler. Here is the conflict:

To work around this, add the following to your pom.xml:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.janino</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-compiler</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.8</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

I had the similar issues, when updated spark-2.2.1 to spark-2.3.0.

In my case, I had to fix commons-compiler and janino

Spark 2.3 solution:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <!--Spark java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/janino/InternalCompilerException-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.janino</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-compiler</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.8</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.janino</groupId>
            <artifactId>janino</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.8</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.janino</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-compiler</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.8</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.janino</groupId>
        <artifactId>janino</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.8</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>