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Dongjoon Hyun updated SPARK-29040:
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    Affects Version/s:     (was: 3.0.0)
                       3.1.0

> Support pyspark.createDataFrame from a pyarrow.Table
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>                 Key: SPARK-29040
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-29040
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: PySpark, SQL
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
>            Reporter: Bryan Cutler
>            Priority: Major
>
> PySpark {{createDataFrame}} currently supports creating a spark DataFrame 
> from Pandas, using Arrow if enabled. This could be extended to accept a 
> {{pyarrow.Table}} which has the added benefit of being able to efficiently 
> use columns with nested struct types.
> It is possible to convert a pyarrow.Table with nested columns into a 
> pandas.DataFrame, but the data becomes dictionaries, and is not a performant 
> way to parallelize the data.
> Time/Date columns would need to be handled specially, since pyspark currently 
> uses pandas to convert Arrow data of these types to the required Spark 
> internal format.
> This follows from a mailing list discussion at 
> http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/question-about-pyarrow-Table-to-pyspark-DataFrame-conversion-td36110.html



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