Difference between DataSet API and DataFrame API

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Shashi picture Shashi · May 18, 2016 · Viewed 32.4k times · Source

I'm just wondering what is the difference between an RDD and DataFrame (Spark 2.0.0 DataFrame is a mere type alias for Dataset[Row]) in Apache Spark?

Can you convert one to the other?

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