Daniel, HiveContext is a subclass of SQLContext, thus offers a superset of features not available in SQLContext, such as access to Hive UDF, Hive table, Hive Serde, etc. This does not change in 1.3.1.
Quote from 1.3.1 documentation “… using HiveContext is recommended for the 1.3 release of Spark. Future releases will focus on bringing SQLContext up to feature parity with a HiveContext.” Lan > On Apr 20, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Daniel Mahler <dmah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is HiveContext still preferred over SQLContext? > What are the current (1.3.1) diferences between them? > > thanks > Daniel
