Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition
by Rajdeep Dua, Brian O'Neill, Stephen Boesch, Manpreet Singh Ghotra, Nick Pentreath
SchemaRDD
SchemaRDD is a combination of RDD and schema information. It also offers many rich and easy-to-use APIs (that is, the DataSet API). SchemaRDD is not used with 2.0 and is internally used by DataFrame and Dataset APIs.
A schema is used to describe how structured data is logically organized. After obtaining the schema information, the SQL engine is able to provide the structured query capability for the corresponding data. The DataSet API is a replacement for Spark SQL parser's functions. It is an API to achieve the original program logic tree. Subsequent processing steps reuse Spark SQL's core logic. We can safely consider DataSet API's processing functions as completely equivalent to that of SQL queries.
SchemaRDD is an RDD subclass. ...
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