What is spark sqlcontext?



What is spark sqlcontext?..

Answer / Nishant Singh

Spark SQLContext is a programmatic interface for Spark SQL. It allows you to run SQL queries on your data frames and data sets, which are collections of data organized into named columns. It also provides the functionality to register DataFrames as temporary tables in Hive metastore.

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