Now json, parquet, orc(in hivecontext), text are natively supported. If you use avro or others, you have to include the package, which are not built into spark jar.
Thanks. Zhan Zhang On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:57 AM, Christopher Brady <christopher.br...@oracle.com<mailto:christopher.br...@oracle.com>> wrote: DataFrameWriter.format