Which are the various data sources available in Spark SQL?

Question

Can anyone tell me which are the various data sources available in Spark SQL?

Answer 1

There are various data sources available in SparkSQL and few of them are below −

• JSON Datasets - Spark SQL automatically capture the schema of a JSON dataset. And, load it as a DataFrame.
• Hive Tables - Hive comes with the Spark library as HiveContext
• Parquet Files - Parquet is a columnar type, supported by several data processing systems.

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