[SPARK-6956] Improve DataFrame API compatibility with Pandas

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Davies Liu
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 16/Apr/15 04:43
• Updated: 21/May/15 18:53
• Resolved: 17/Apr/15 16:35

Description

This is not always possible, but whenever possible we should remove or reduce the differences between Pandas and Spark DataFrames in Python.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-6116 DataFrame API improvement umbrella ticket (Spark 1.5)

Sub-Tasks

• Add Pandas style group by operator: Resolved
• Add Pandas style sort operator: Resolved
• Add Pandas style cast (astype): Resolved