Github user dbtsai commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1104#issuecomment-46393840 I think it's legacy reason to have two different way to access the API. As far as I know, @mengxr is working on consolidating the interface. He probably can talk about more on this topic.
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