Manually specify file option

You can also manually specify the data source that will be used along with any extra options that you would like to pass to the data source. Data sources are specified by their fully qualified name (i.e., org.apache.spark.sql.parquet), but for built-in sources you can also use their short names (json, parquet, jdbc, orc, libsvm, csv, text). DataFrames loaded from any data source type can be converted into other types using this syntax.

val peopleDF = spark.read.format("json")
  .load("file:///home/dv6/spark/spark/examples/src/main/resources/people.json")
peopleDF.select("name", "age")
 .write.format("parquet").save("file:///tmp/namesAndAges.parquet")

val peopleDFCsv = spark.read.format("csv")
  .option("sep", ";")
  .option("inferSchema", "true")
  .option("header", "true")
  .load("file:///home/dv6/spark/spark/examples/src/main/resources/people.csv")

The extra options are also used during write operation. For example, you can control bloom filters and dictionary encodings for ORC data sources. The following ORC example will create bloom filter on favorite_color and use dictionary encoding for name and favorite_color. For Parquet, there exists parquet.enable.dictionary, too. To find more detailed information about the extra ORC/Parquet options, visit the official Apache ORC/Parquet websites.

usersDF.write.format("orc")
  .option("orc.bloom.filter.columns"
     , "favorite_color")
  .option("orc.dictionary.key.threshold", "1.0")
  .save("file:///tmp/users_with_options.orc")

supported file formats are:

"orc","csv","libsvm","json" etc.

Assuming yo already know orc, csv, json format.

libsvm is used mostly with ML algorithms The format looks like below:

0 128:51 129:159 130:253 131:159 132:50 155:48 156:238 157:252 158:252 159:252 160:237 182:54 183:227 184:253 185:252 186:239 187:233 188:252 189:57 190:6 208:10 209:60 210:224 211:252 212:253 213:252 214:202 215:84 216:252 217:253 218:122 236:163 237:252 238:252 239:252 240:253 241:252 242:252 243:96 244:189 245:253 246:167 263:51 264:238 265:253 266:253 267:190 268:114 269:253 270:228 271:47 272:79 273:255 274:168 290:48 291:238 292:252 293:252 294:179 295:12 296:75 297:121 298:21 301:253 302:243 303:50 317:38 318:165 319:253 320:233 321:208 322:84 329:253 330:252 331:165 344:7 345:178 346:252 347:240 348:71 349:19 350:28 357:253 358:252 359:195 372:57 373:252 374:252 375:63 385:253 386:252 387:195 400:198 401:253 402:190 413:255 414:253 415:196 427:76 428:246 429:252 430:112 441:253 442:252 443:148 455:85 456:252 457:230 458:25 467:7 468:135 469:253 470:186 471:12 483:85 484:252 485:223 494:7 495:131 496:252 497:225 498:71 511:85 512:252 513:145 521:48 522:165 523:252 524:173 539:86 540:253 541:225 548:114 549:238 550:253 551:162 567:85 568:252 569:249 570:146 571:48 572:29 573:85 574:178 575:225 576:253 577:223 578:167 579:56 595:85 596:252 597:252 598:252 599:229 600:215 601:252 602:252 603:252 604:196 605:130 623:28 624:199 625:252 626:252 627:253 628:252 629:252 630:233 631:145 652:25 653:128 654:252 655:253 656:252 657:141 658:37
1 159:124 160:253 161:255 162:63 186:96 187:244 188:251 189:253 190:62 214:127 215:251 216:251 217:253 218:62 241:68 242:236 243:251 244:211 245:31 246:8 268:60 269:228 270:251 271:251 272:94 296:155 297:253 298:253 299:189 323:20 324:253 325:251 326:235 327:66 350:32 351:205 352:253 353:251 354:126 378:104 379:251 380:253 381:184 382:15 405:80 406:240 407:251 408:193 409:23 432:32 433:253 434:253 435:253 436:159 460:151 461:251 462:251 463:251 464:39 487:48 488:221 489:251 490:251 491:172 515:234 516:251 517:251 518:196 519:12 543:253 544:251 545:251 546:89 570:159 571:255 572:253 573:253 574:31 597:48 598:228 599:253 600:247 601:140 602:8 625:64 626:251 627:253 628:220 653:64 654:251 655:253 656:220 681:24 682:193 683:253 684:220
1 125:145 126:255 127:211 128:31 152:32 153:237 154:253 155:252 156:71 180:11 181:175 182:253 183:252 184:71 209:144 210:253 211:252 212:71 236:16 237:191 238:253 239:252 240:71 264:26 265:221 266:253 267:252 268:124 269:31 293:125 294:253 295:252 296:252 297:108 322:253 323:252 324:252 325:108 350:255 351:253 352:253 353:108 378:253 379:252 380:252 381:108 406:253 407:252 408:252 409:108 434:253 435:252 436:252 437:108 462:255 463:253 464:253 465:170 490:253 491:252 492:252 493:252 494:42 518:149 519:252 520:252 521:252 522:144 546:109 547:252 548:252 549:252 550:144 575:218 576:253 577:253 578:255 579:35 603:175 604:252 605:252 606:253 607:35 631:73 632:252 633:252 634:253 635:35 659:31 660:211 661:252 662:253 663:35

On each line, first field is label or target, subsequent fields are column position:value, where the value is non zero. The column with zero will not show.