excerpt definition: The definition of an excerpt is a quote from a book or film. (noun) An example of excerpt is a passage from a novel....
The scheme of organizing related information is known as âdata structureâ. The types of data structure are: Lists: A group of similar items with connectivity to the previous or/and next data items. Arrays: A set of homogeneous values.
Schema â Structure of Data. A schema is the description of the structure of your data (which together create a Dataset in Spark SQL). It can be implicit (and inferred at runtime) or explicit (and known at compile time). A schema is described using StructType which is a collection of StructField objects (that in turn are tuples of names, types, and nullability classifier).