Used (had a limitation with provided Cloudera cluster packages): https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v2.2.0/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/BlockMatrix.scala New: https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/BlockMatrix.scala (just upgrade spark version in build.sbt)