Adds a new method for evaluating expressions using code that is generated though Scala reflection.  This functionality is configured by the SQLConf option `spark.sql.codegen` and is currently turned off by default.

Evaluation can be done in several specialized ways:
 - *Projection* - Given an input row, produce a new row from a set of expressions that define each column in terms of the input row.  This can either produce a new Row object or perform the projection in-place on an existing Row (MutableProjection).
 - *Ordering* - Compares two rows based on a list of `SortOrder` expressions
 - *Condition* - Returns `true` or `false` given an input row.

For each of the above operations there is both a Generated and Interpreted version.  When generation for a given expression type is undefined, the code generator falls back on calling the `eval` function of the expression class.  Even without custom code, there is still a potential speed up, as loops are unrolled and code can still be inlined by JIT.

This PR also contains a new type of Aggregation operator, `GeneratedAggregate`, that performs aggregation by using generated `Projection` code.  Currently the required expression rewriting only works for simple aggregations like `SUM` and `COUNT`.  This functionality will be extended in a future PR.

This PR also performs several clean ups that simplified the implementation:
 - The notion of `Binding` all expressions in a tree automatically before query execution has been removed.  Instead it is the responsibly of an operator to provide the input schema when creating one of the specialized evaluators defined above.  In cases when the standard eval method is going to be called, binding can still be done manually using `BindReferences`.  There are a few reasons for this change:  First, there were many operators where it just didn't work before.  For example, operators with more than one child, and operators like aggregation that do significant rewriting of the expression. Second, the semantics of equality with `BoundReferences` are broken.  Specifically, we have had a few bugs where partitioning breaks because of the binding.
 - A copy of the current `SQLContext` is automatically propagated to all `SparkPlan` nodes by the query planner.  Before this was done ad-hoc for the nodes that needed this.  However, this required a lot of boilerplate as one had to always remember to make it `transient` and also had to modify the `otherCopyArgs`.

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #993 from marmbrus/newCodeGen and squashes the following commits:

96ef82c [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into newCodeGen
f34122d [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into newCodeGen
67b1c48 [Michael Armbrust] Use conf variable in SQLConf object
4bdc42c [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into newCodeGen
41a40c9 [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into newCodeGen
de22aac [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into newCodeGen
fed3634 [Michael Armbrust] Inspectors are not serializable.
ef8d42b [Michael Armbrust] comments
533fdfd [Michael Armbrust] More logging of expression rewriting for GeneratedAggregate.
3cd773e [Michael Armbrust] Allow codegen for Generate.
64b2ee1 [Michael Armbrust] Implement copy
3587460 [Michael Armbrust] Drop unused string builder function.
9cce346 [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into newCodeGen
1a61293 [Michael Armbrust] Address review comments.
0672e8a [Michael Armbrust] Address comments.
1ec2d6e [Michael Armbrust] Address comments
033abc6 [Michael Armbrust] off by default
4771fab [Michael Armbrust] Docs, more test coverage.
d30fee2 [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into newCodeGen
d2ad5c5 [Michael Armbrust] Refactor putting SQLContext into SparkPlan. Fix ordering, other test cases.
be2cd6b [Michael Armbrust] WIP: Remove old method for reference binding, more work on configuration.
bc88ecd [Michael Armbrust] Style
6cc97ca [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into newCodeGen
4220f1e [Michael Armbrust] Better config, docs, etc.
ca6cc6b [Michael Armbrust] WIP
9d67d85 [Michael Armbrust] Fix hive planner
fc522d5 [Michael Armbrust] Hook generated aggregation in to the planner.
e742640 [Michael Armbrust] Remove unneeded changes and code.
675e679 [Michael Armbrust] Upgrade paradise.
0093376 [Michael Armbrust] Comment / indenting cleanup.
d81f998 [Michael Armbrust] include schema for binding.
0e889e8 [Michael Armbrust] Use typeOf instead tq
f623ffd [Michael Armbrust] Quiet logging from test suite.
efad14f [Michael Armbrust] Remove some half finished functions.
92e74a4 [Michael Armbrust] add overrides
a2b5408 [Michael Armbrust] WIP: Code generation with scala reflection.

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@apache.org>

Closes #1626 from JoshRosen/SPARK-2305 and squashes the following commits:

03fb283 [Josh Rosen] Update Py4J to version 0.8.2.1.

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #1638 from marmbrus/cachedConfig and squashes the following commits:

2362082 [Michael Armbrust] Use SQLConf to configure in-memory columnar caching

For queries like `... HAVING COUNT(*) > 9` the expression is always resolved since it contains no attributes.  This was causing us to avoid doing the Having clause aggregation rewrite.

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #1640 from marmbrus/havingNoRef and squashes the following commits:

92d3901 [Michael Armbrust] Don't check resolved for having filters.

This commit exists to close the following pull requests on Github:

Closes #740 (close requested by 'rxin')
Closes #647 (close requested by 'rxin')
Closes #1383 (close requested by 'rxin')
Closes #1485 (close requested by 'pwendell')
Closes #693 (close requested by 'rxin')
Closes #478 (close requested by 'JoshRosen')

The idea is that every Catalyst logical plan gets hold of a Statistics class, the usage of which provides useful estimations on various statistics. See the implementations of `MetastoreRelation`.

This patch also includes several usages of the estimation interface in the planner. For instance, we now use physical table sizes from the estimate interface to convert an equi-join to a broadcast join (when doing so is beneficial, as determined by a size threshold).

Finally, there are a couple minor accompanying changes including:
- Remove the not-in-use `BaseRelation`.
- Make SparkLogicalPlan take a `SQLContext` in the second param list.

Author: Zongheng Yang <zongheng.y@gmail.com>

Closes #1238 from concretevitamin/estimates and squashes the following commits:

329071d [Zongheng Yang] Address review comments; turn config name from string to field in SQLConf.
8663e84 [Zongheng Yang] Use BigInt for stat; for logical leaves, by default throw an exception.
2f2fb89 [Zongheng Yang] Fix statistics for SparkLogicalPlan.
9951305 [Zongheng Yang] Remove childrenStats.
16fc60a [Zongheng Yang] Avoid calling statistics on plans if auto join conversion is disabled.
8bd2816 [Zongheng Yang] Add a note on performance of statistics.
6e594b8 [Zongheng Yang] Get size info from metastore for MetastoreRelation.
01b7a3e [Zongheng Yang] Update scaladoc for a field and move it to @param section.
549061c [Zongheng Yang] Remove numTuples in Statistics for now.
729a8e2 [Zongheng Yang] Update docs to be more explicit.
573e644 [Zongheng Yang] Remove singleton SQLConf and move back `settings` to the trait.
2d99eb5 [Zongheng Yang] {Cleanup, use synchronized in, enrich} StatisticsSuite.
ca5b825 [Zongheng Yang] Inject SQLContext into SparkLogicalPlan, removing SQLConf mixin from it.
43d38a6 [Zongheng Yang] Revert optimization for BroadcastNestedLoopJoin (this fixes tests).
0ef9e5b [Zongheng Yang] Use multiplication instead of sum for default estimates.
4ef0d26 [Zongheng Yang] Make Statistics a case class.
3ba8f3e [Zongheng Yang] Add comment.
e5bcf5b [Zongheng Yang] Fix optimization conditions & update scala docs to explain.
7d9216a [Zongheng Yang] Apply estimation to planning ShuffleHashJoin & BroadcastNestedLoopJoin.
73cde01 [Zongheng Yang] Move SQLConf back. Assign default sizeInBytes to SparkLogicalPlan.
73412be [Zongheng Yang] Move SQLConf to Catalyst & add default val for sizeInBytes.
7a60ab7 [Zongheng Yang] s/Estimates/Statistics, s/cardinality/numTuples.
de3ae13 [Zongheng Yang] Add parquetAfter() properly in test.
dcff9bd [Zongheng Yang] Cleanups.
84301a4 [Zongheng Yang] Refactors.
5bf5586 [Zongheng Yang] Typo.
56a8e6e [Zongheng Yang] Prototype impl of estimations for Catalyst logical plans.

Implemented stratified sampling that guarantees exact sample size using ScaRSR with two passes over the RDD for sampling without replacement and three passes for sampling with replacement.

Author: Doris Xin <doris.s.xin@gmail.com>
Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #1025 from dorx/stratified and squashes the following commits:

245439e [Doris Xin] moved minSamplingRate to getUpperBound
eaf5771 [Doris Xin] bug fixes.
17a381b [Doris Xin] fixed a merge issue and a failed unit
ea7d27f [Doris Xin] merge master
b223529 [Xiangrui Meng] use approx bounds for poisson fix poisson mean for waitlisting add unit tests for Java
b3013a4 [Xiangrui Meng] move math3 back to test scope
eecee5f [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into stratified
f4c21f3 [Doris Xin] Reviewer comments
a10e68d [Doris Xin] style fix
a2bf756 [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into stratified
680b677 [Doris Xin] use mapPartitionWithIndex instead
9884a9f [Doris Xin] style fix
bbfb8c9 [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into stratified
ee9d260 [Doris Xin] addressed reviewer comments
6b5b10b [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into stratified
254e03c [Doris Xin] minor fixes and Java API.
4ad516b [Doris Xin] remove unused imports from PairRDDFunctions
bd9dc6e [Doris Xin] unit bug and style violation fixed
1fe1cff [Doris Xin] Changed fractionByKey to a map to enable arg check
944a10c [Doris Xin] [SPARK-2145] Add lower bound on sampling rate
0214a76 [Doris Xin] cleanUp
90d94c0 [Doris Xin] merge master
9e74ab5 [Doris Xin] Separated out most of the logic in sampleByKey
7327611 [Doris Xin] merge master
50581fc [Doris Xin] added a TODO for logging in python
46f6c8c [Doris Xin] fixed the NPE caused by closures being cleaned before being passed into the aggregate function
7e1a481 [Doris Xin] changed the permission on SamplingUtil
1d413ce [Doris Xin] fixed checkstyle issues
9ee94ee [Doris Xin] [SPARK-2082] stratified sampling in PairRDDFunctions that guarantees exact sample size
e3fd6a6 [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into takeSample
7cab53a [Doris Xin] fixed import bug in rdd.py
ffea61a [Doris Xin] SPARK-1939: Refactor takeSample method in RDD
1441977 [Doris Xin] SPARK-1939 Refactor takeSample method in RDD to use ScaSRS

Datetime and time in Python will be converted into java.util.Calendar after serialization, it will be converted into java.sql.Timestamp during inferSchema().

In javaToPython(), Timestamp will be converted into Calendar, then be converted into datetime in Python after pickling.

Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>

Closes #1601 from davies/date and squashes the following commits:

f0599b0 [Davies Liu] remove tests for sets and tuple in sql, fix list of list
c9d607a [Davies Liu] convert datetype for runtime
709d40d [Davies Liu] remove brackets
96db384 [Davies Liu] support datetime type for SchemaRDD

JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2730

Author: Yin Huai <huai@cse.ohio-state.edu>

Closes #1637 from yhuai/SPARK-2730 and squashes the following commits:

1a9f24e [Yin Huai] Remove unnecessary key evaluation.

1. there's no `hook_context.q` but a `hook_context_cs.q` in query folder
2. there's no `compute_stats_table.q` in query folder
3. there's no `having1.q` in query folder
4. `udf_E` and `udf_PI` appear twice in white list

Author: Daoyuan <daoyuan.wang@intel.com>

Closes #1634 from adrian-wang/testcases and squashes the following commits:

d7482ce [Daoyuan] change some test lists

...sh model

Currently Spark uses Flume's internal Avro Protocol to ingest data from Flume. If the executor running the
receiver fails, it currently has to be restarted on the same node to be able to receive data.

This commit adds a new Sink which can be deployed to a Flume agent. This sink can be polled by a new
DStream that is also included in this commit. This model ensures that data can be pulled into Spark from
Flume even if the receiver is restarted on a new node. This also allows the receiver to receive data on
multiple threads for better performance.

Author: Hari Shreedharan <harishreedharan@gmail.com>
Author: Hari Shreedharan <hshreedharan@apache.org>
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Author: harishreedharan <hshreedharan@cloudera.com>

Closes #807 from harishreedharan/master and squashes the following commits:

e7f70a3 [Hari Shreedharan] Merge remote-tracking branch 'asf-git/master'
96cfb6f [Hari Shreedharan] Merge remote-tracking branch 'asf/master'
e48d785 [Hari Shreedharan] Documenting flume-sink being ignored for Mima checks.
5f212ce [Hari Shreedharan] Ignore Spark Sink from mima.
981bf62 [Hari Shreedharan] Merge remote-tracking branch 'asf/master'
7a1bc6e [Hari Shreedharan] Fix SparkBuild.scala
a082eb3 [Hari Shreedharan] Merge remote-tracking branch 'asf/master'
1f47364 [Hari Shreedharan] Minor fixes.
73d6f6d [Hari Shreedharan] Cleaned up tests a bit. Added some docs in multiple places.
65b76b4 [Hari Shreedharan] Fixing the unit test.
e59cc20 [Hari Shreedharan] Use SparkFlumeEvent instead of the new type. Also, Flume Polling Receiver now uses the store(ArrayBuffer) method.
f3c99d1 [Hari Shreedharan] Merge remote-tracking branch 'asf/master'
3572180 [Hari Shreedharan] Adding a license header, making Jenkins happy.
799509f [Hari Shreedharan] Fix a compile issue.
3c5194c [Hari Shreedharan] Merge remote-tracking branch 'asf/master'
d248d22 [harishreedharan] Merge pull request #1 from tdas/flume-polling
10b6214 [Tathagata Das] Changed public API, changed sink package, and added java unit test to make sure Java API is callable from Java.
1edc806 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Update logging in Spark Sink.
8c00289 [Hari Shreedharan] More debug messages
393bd94 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Use LinkedBlockingQueue instead of ArrayBuffer to keep track of connections.
120e2a1 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Some test changes and changes to utils classes.
9fd0da7 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Use foreach instead of map for all Options.
8136aa6 [Hari Shreedharan] Adding TransactionProcessor to map on returning batch of data
86aa274 [Hari Shreedharan] Merge remote-tracking branch 'asf/master'
205034d [Hari Shreedharan] Merging master in
4b0c7fc [Hari Shreedharan] FLUME-1729. New Flume-Spark integration.
bda01fc [Hari Shreedharan] FLUME-1729. Flume-Spark integration.
0d69604 [Hari Shreedharan] FLUME-1729. Better Flume-Spark integration.
3c23c18 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. New Spark-Flume integration.
70bcc2a [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. New Flume-Spark integration.
d6fa3aa [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. New Flume-Spark integration.
e7da512 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Fixing import order
9741683 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Fixes based on review.
c604a3c [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Optimize imports.
0f10788 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Make Flume pull data from source, rather than the current push model
87775aa [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Make Flume pull data from source, rather than the current push model
8df37e4 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Make Flume pull data from source, rather than the current push model
03d6c1c [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Make Flume pull data from source, rather than the current push model
08176ad [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Make Flume pull data from source, rather than the current push model
d24d9d4 [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Make Flume pull data from source, rather than the current push model
6d6776a [Hari Shreedharan] SPARK-1729. Make Flume pull data from source, rather than the current push model

Author: Aaron Staple <astaple@gmail.com>

Closes #1630 from staple/minor and squashes the following commits:

6f295a2 [Aaron Staple] Fix typos in comment about ExprId.
8566467 [Aaron Staple] Fix off by one column indentation in SqlParser.

In `reduce` and `aggregate`, the driver node spends linear time on the number of partitions. It becomes a bottleneck when there are many partitions and the data from each partition is big.

SPARK-1485 (#506) tracks the progress of implementing AllReduce on Spark. I did several implementations including butterfly, reduce + broadcast, and treeReduce + broadcast. treeReduce + BT broadcast seems to be right way to go for Spark. Using binary tree may introduce some overhead in communication, because the driver still need to coordinate on data shuffling. In my experiments, n -> sqrt(n) -> 1 gives the best performance in general, which is why I set "depth = 2" in MLlib algorithms. But it certainly needs more testing.

I left `treeReduce` and `treeAggregate` public for easy testing. Some numbers from a test on 32-node m3.2xlarge cluster.

code:

~~~
import breeze.linalg._
import org.apache.log4j._

Logger.getRootLogger.setLevel(Level.OFF)

for (n <- Seq(1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000)) {
  val vv = sc.parallelize(0 until 1024, 1024).map(i => DenseVector.zeros[Double](n))
  var start = System.nanoTime(); vv.treeReduce(_ + _, 2); println((System.nanoTime() - start) / 1e9)
  start = System.nanoTime(); vv.reduce(_ + _); println((System.nanoTime() - start) / 1e9)
}
~~~

out:

| n | treeReduce(,2) | reduce |
|---|---------------------|-----------|
| 10 | 0.215538731 | 0.204206899 |
| 100 | 0.278405907 | 0.205732582 |
| 1000 | 0.208972182 | 0.214298272 |
| 10000 | 0.194792071 | 0.349353687 |
| 100000 | 0.347683285 | 6.086671892 |
| 1000000 | 2.589350682 | 66.572906702 |

CC: @pwendell

This is clearly more scalable than the default implementation. My question is whether we should use this implementation in `reduce` and `aggregate` or put them as separate methods. The concern is that users may use `reduce` and `aggregate` as collect, where having multiple stages doesn't reduce the data size. However, in this case, `collect` is more appropriate.

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #1110 from mengxr/tree and squashes the following commits:

c6cd267 [Xiangrui Meng] make depth default to 2
b04b96a [Xiangrui Meng] address comments
9bcc5d3 [Xiangrui Meng] add depth for readability
7495681 [Xiangrui Meng] fix compile error
142a857 [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
d58a087 [Xiangrui Meng] move treeReduce and treeAggregate to mllib
8a2a59c [Xiangrui Meng] Merge branch 'master' into tree
be6a88a [Xiangrui Meng] use treeAggregate in mllib
0f94490 [Xiangrui Meng] add docs
eb71c33 [Xiangrui Meng] add treeReduce
fe42a5e [Xiangrui Meng] add treeAggregate

The pull request includes two changes:

1. Removes SortOrder introduced by SPARK-2125. The key ordering already includes the SortOrder information since an Ordering can be reverse. This is similar to Java's Comparator interface. Rarely does an API accept both a Comparator as well as a SortOrder.

2. Replaces the sortWith call in HashShuffleReader with an in-place quick sort.

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>

Closes #1631 from rxin/sortOrder and squashes the following commits:

c9d37e1 [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-2726] and [SPARK-2727] Remove SortOrder and do in-place sort.

fix the problem with pickle operator.itemgetter with multiple index.

Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>

Closes #1627 from davies/itemgetter and squashes the following commits:

aabd7fa [Davies Liu] fix pickle itemgetter with cloudpickle

During rdd.take(n), JVM will close the socket if it had got enough data, the Python worker should keep silent in this case.

In the same time, the worker should not print the trackback into stderr if it send the traceback to JVM successfully.

Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>

Closes #1625 from davies/error and squashes the following commits:

4fbcc6d [Davies Liu] disable log4j during testing when exception is expected.
cc14202 [Davies Liu] keep silent in worker if JVM close the socket

Author: Yadong Qi <qiyadong2010@gmail.com>

Closes #1629 from watermen/bug-fix2 and squashes the following commits:

59b7237 [Yadong Qi] Update HiveQl.scala

Spark only transitively depends on the latter, based on the Hadoop version.

Author: Aaron Davidson <aaron@databricks.com>

Closes #1621 from aarondav/lang3 and squashes the following commits:

93c93bf [Aaron Davidson] Use commons-lang3 in SignalLogger rather than commons-lang

JIRA issue: [SPARK-2410](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2410)

Another try for #1399 & #1600. Those two PR breaks Jenkins builds because we made a separate profile `hive-thriftserver` in sub-project `assembly`, but the `hive-thriftserver` module is defined outside the `hive-thriftserver` profile. Thus every time a pull request that doesn't touch SQL code will also execute test suites defined in `hive-thriftserver`, but tests fail because related .class files are not included in the assembly jar.

In the most recent commit, module `hive-thriftserver` is moved into its own profile to fix this problem. All previous commits are squashed for clarity.

Author: Cheng Lian <lian.cs.zju@gmail.com>

Closes #1620 from liancheng/jdbc-with-maven-fix and squashes the following commits:

629988e [Cheng Lian] Moved hive-thriftserver module definition into its own profile
ec3c7a7 [Cheng Lian] Cherry picked the Hive Thrift server

Floating point math is not exact, and most floating-point numbers end up being slightly imprecise due to rounding errors.

Simple values like 0.1 cannot be precisely represented using binary floating point numbers, and the limited precision of floating point numbers means that slight changes in the order of operations or the precision of intermediates can change the result.

That means that comparing two floats to see if they are equal is usually not what we want. As long as this imprecision stays small, it can usually be ignored.

Based on discussion in the community, we have implemented two different APIs for relative tolerance, and absolute tolerance. It makes sense that test writers should know which one they need depending on their circumstances.

Developers also need to explicitly specify the eps, and there is no default value which will sometimes cause confusion.

When comparing against zero using relative tolerance, a exception will be raised to warn users that it's meaningless.

For relative tolerance, users can now write

    assert(23.1 ~== 23.52 relTol 0.02)
    assert(23.1 ~== 22.74 relTol 0.02)
    assert(23.1 ~= 23.52 relTol 0.02)
    assert(23.1 ~= 22.74 relTol 0.02)
    assert(!(23.1 !~= 23.52 relTol 0.02))
    assert(!(23.1 !~= 22.74 relTol 0.02))

    // This will throw exception with the following message.
    // "Did not expect 23.1 and 23.52 to be within 0.02 using relative tolerance."
    assert(23.1 !~== 23.52 relTol 0.02)

    // "Expected 23.1 and 22.34 to be within 0.02 using relative tolerance."
    assert(23.1 ~== 22.34 relTol 0.02)

For absolute error,

    assert(17.8 ~== 17.99 absTol 0.2)
    assert(17.8 ~== 17.61 absTol 0.2)
    assert(17.8 ~= 17.99 absTol 0.2)
    assert(17.8 ~= 17.61 absTol 0.2)
    assert(!(17.8 !~= 17.99 absTol 0.2))
    assert(!(17.8 !~= 17.61 absTol 0.2))

    // This will throw exception with the following message.
    // "Did not expect 17.8 and 17.99 to be within 0.2 using absolute error."
    assert(17.8 !~== 17.99 absTol 0.2)

    // "Expected 17.8 and 17.59 to be within 0.2 using absolute error."
    assert(17.8 ~== 17.59 absTol 0.2)

Authors:
  DB Tsai <dbtsaialpinenow.com>
  Marek Kolodziej <marekalpinenow.com>

Author: DB Tsai <dbtsai@alpinenow.com>

Closes #1425 from dbtsai/SPARK-2479_comparing_floating_point and squashes the following commits:

8c7cbcc [DB Tsai] Alpine Data Labs

In HiveTableScan.scala, ObjectInspector was created for all of the partition based records, which probably causes ClassCastException if the object inspector is not identical among table & partitions.

This is the follow up with:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1408
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1390

I've run a micro benchmark in my local with 15000000 records totally, and got the result as below:

With This Patch  |  Partition-Based Table  |  Non-Partition-Based Table
------------ | ------------- | -------------
No  |  1927 ms  |  1885 ms
Yes  | 1541 ms  |  1524 ms

It showed this patch will also improve the performance.

PS:  the benchmark code is also attached. (thanks liancheng )
```
package org.apache.spark.sql.hive

import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
import org.apache.spark.sql._

object HiveTableScanPrepare extends App {
  case class Record(key: String, value: String)

  val sparkContext = new SparkContext(
    new SparkConf()
      .setMaster("local")
      .setAppName(getClass.getSimpleName.stripSuffix("$")))

  val hiveContext = new LocalHiveContext(sparkContext)

  val rdd = sparkContext.parallelize((1 to 3000000).map(i => Record(s"$i", s"val_$i")))

  import hiveContext._

  hql("SHOW TABLES")
  hql("DROP TABLE if exists part_scan_test")
  hql("DROP TABLE if exists scan_test")
  hql("DROP TABLE if exists records")
  rdd.registerAsTable("records")

  hql("""CREATE TABLE part_scan_test (key STRING, value STRING) PARTITIONED BY (part1 string, part2 STRING)
                 | ROW FORMAT SERDE
                 | 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.columnar.LazyBinaryColumnarSerDe'
                 | STORED AS RCFILE
               """.stripMargin)
  hql("""CREATE TABLE scan_test (key STRING, value STRING)
                 | ROW FORMAT SERDE
                 | 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.columnar.LazyBinaryColumnarSerDe'
                 | STORED AS RCFILE
               """.stripMargin)

  for (part1 <- 2000 until 2001) {
    for (part2 <- 1 to 5) {
      hql(s"""from records
                 | insert into table part_scan_test PARTITION (part1='$part1', part2='2010-01-$part2')
                 | select key, value
               """.stripMargin)
      hql(s"""from records
                 | insert into table scan_test select key, value
               """.stripMargin)
    }
  }
}

object HiveTableScanTest extends App {
  val sparkContext = new SparkContext(
    new SparkConf()
      .setMaster("local")
      .setAppName(getClass.getSimpleName.stripSuffix("$")))

  val hiveContext = new LocalHiveContext(sparkContext)

  import hiveContext._

  hql("SHOW TABLES")
  val part_scan_test = hql("select key, value from part_scan_test")
  val scan_test = hql("select key, value from scan_test")

  val r_part_scan_test = (0 to 5).map(i => benchmark(part_scan_test))
  val r_scan_test = (0 to 5).map(i => benchmark(scan_test))
  println("Scanning Partition-Based Table")
  r_part_scan_test.foreach(printResult)
  println("Scanning Non-Partition-Based Table")
  r_scan_test.foreach(printResult)

  def printResult(result: (Long, Long)) {
    println(s"Duration: ${result._1} ms Result: ${result._2}")
  }

  def benchmark(srdd: SchemaRDD) = {
    val begin = System.currentTimeMillis()
    val result = srdd.count()
    val end = System.currentTimeMillis()
    ((end - begin), result)
  }
}
```

Author: Cheng Hao <hao.cheng@intel.com>

Closes #1439 from chenghao-intel/hadoop_table_scan and squashes the following commits:

888968f [Cheng Hao] Fix issues in code style
27540ba [Cheng Hao] Fix the TableScan Bug while partition serde differs
40a24a7 [Cheng Hao] Add Unit Test

This addresses a PySpark issue where a failed attempt to construct SparkContext would prevent any future SparkContext creation.

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@apache.org>

Closes #1606 from JoshRosen/SPARK-1550 and squashes the following commits:

ec7fadc [Josh Rosen] [SPARK-1550] [PySpark] Allow SparkContext creation after failed attempts

Can be run as: "mvn scalastyle:check"

Author: Rahul Singhal <rahul.singhal@guavus.com>

Closes #1550 from rahulsinghaliitd/SPARK-2651 and squashes the following commits:

53748dd [Rahul Singhal] SPARK-2651: Add maven scalastyle plugin

This reverts commit f6ff2a61.

Utilities for generating random RDDs.

RandomRDD and RandomVectorRDD are created instead of using `sc.parallelize(range:Range)` because `Range` objects in Scala can only have `size <= Int.MaxValue`.

The object `RandomRDDGenerators` can be transformed into a generator class to reduce the number of auxiliary methods for optional arguments.

Author: Doris Xin <doris.s.xin@gmail.com>

Closes #1520 from dorx/randomRDD and squashes the following commits:

01121ac [Doris Xin] reviewer comments
6bf27d8 [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into randomRDD
a8ea92d [Doris Xin] Reviewer comments
063ea0b [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into randomRDD
aec68eb [Doris Xin] newline
bc90234 [Doris Xin] units passed.
d56cacb [Doris Xin] impl with RandomRDD
92d6f1c [Doris Xin] solution for Cloneable
df5bcff [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'generator' into randomRDD
f46d928 [Doris Xin] WIP
49ed20d [Doris Xin] alternative poisson distribution generator
7cb0e40 [Doris Xin] fix for data inconsistency
8881444 [Doris Xin] RandomRDDGenerator: initial design

**Problem.** When caching, we currently unroll the entire RDD partition before making sure we have enough free memory. This is a common cause for OOMs especially when (1) the BlockManager has little free space left in memory, and (2) the partition is large.

**Solution.** We maintain a global memory pool of `M` bytes shared across all threads, similar to the way we currently manage memory for shuffle aggregation. Then, while we unroll each partition, periodically check if there is enough space to continue. If not, drop enough RDD blocks to ensure we have at least `M` bytes to work with, then try again. If we still don't have enough space to unroll the partition, give up and drop the block to disk directly if applicable.

**New configurations.**
- `spark.storage.bufferFraction` - the value of `M` as a fraction of the storage memory. (default: 0.2)
- `spark.storage.safetyFraction` - a margin of safety in case size estimation is slightly off. This is the equivalent of the existing `spark.shuffle.safetyFraction`. (default 0.9)

For more detail, see the [design document](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12651793/spark-1777-design-doc.pdf). Tests pending for performance and memory usage patterns.

Author: Andrew Or <andrewor14@gmail.com>

Closes #1165 from andrewor14/them-rdd-memories and squashes the following commits:

e77f451 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
c7c8832 [Andrew Or] Simplify logic + update a few comments
269d07b [Andrew Or] Very minor changes to tests
6645a8a [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
b7e165c [Andrew Or] Add new tests for unrolling blocks
f12916d [Andrew Or] Slightly clean up tests
71672a7 [Andrew Or] Update unrollSafely tests
369ad07 [Andrew Or] Correct ensureFreeSpace and requestMemory behavior
f4d035c [Andrew Or] Allow one thread to unroll multiple blocks
a66fbd2 [Andrew Or] Rename a few things + update comments
68730b3 [Andrew Or] Fix weird scalatest behavior
e40c60d [Andrew Or] Fix MIMA excludes
ff77aa1 [Andrew Or] Fix tests
1a43c06 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
b9a6eee [Andrew Or] Simplify locking behavior on unrollMemoryMap
ed6cda4 [Andrew Or] Formatting fix (super minor)
f9ff82e [Andrew Or] putValues -> putIterator + putArray
beb368f [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
8448c9b [Andrew Or] Fix tests
a49ba4d [Andrew Or] Do not expose unroll memory check period
69bc0a5 [Andrew Or] Always synchronize on putLock before unrollMemoryMap
3f5a083 [Andrew Or] Simplify signature of ensureFreeSpace
dce55c8 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
8288228 [Andrew Or] Synchronize put and unroll properly
4f18a3d [Andrew Or] bufferFraction -> unrollFraction
28edfa3 [Andrew Or] Update a few comments / log messages
728323b [Andrew Or] Do not synchronize every 1000 elements
5ab2329 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
129c441 [Andrew Or] Fix bug: Use toArray rather than array
9a65245 [Andrew Or] Update a few comments + minor control flow changes
57f8d85 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
abeae4f [Andrew Or] Add comment clarifying the MEMORY_AND_DISK case
3dd96aa [Andrew Or] AppendOnlyBuffer -> Vector (+ a few small changes)
f920531 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
0871835 [Andrew Or] Add an effective storage level interface to BlockManager
64e7d4c [Andrew Or] Add/modify a few comments (minor)
8af2f35 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
4f4834e [Andrew Or] Use original storage level for blocks dropped to disk
ecc8c2d [Andrew Or] Fix binary incompatibility
24185ea [Andrew Or] Avoid dropping a block back to disk if reading from disk
2b7ee66 [Andrew Or] Fix bug in SizeTracking*
9b9a273 [Andrew Or] Fix tests
20eb3e5 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
649bdb3 [Andrew Or] Document spark.storage.bufferFraction
a10b0e7 [Andrew Or] Add initial memory request threshold + rename a few things
e9c3cb0 [Andrew Or] cacheMemoryMap -> unrollMemoryMap
198e374 [Andrew Or] Unfold -> unroll
0d50155 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
d9d02a8 [Andrew Or] Remove unused param in unfoldSafely
ec728d8 [Andrew Or] Add tests for safe unfolding of blocks
22b2209 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
078eb83 [Andrew Or] Add check for hasNext in PrimitiveVector.iterator
0871535 [Andrew Or] Fix tests in BlockManagerSuite
d68f31e [Andrew Or] Safely unfold blocks for all memory puts
5961f50 [Andrew Or] Fix tests
195abd7 [Andrew Or] Refactor: move unfold logic to MemoryStore
1e82d00 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
3ce413e [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
d5dd3b4 [Andrew Or] Free buffer memory in finally
ea02eec [Andrew Or] Fix tests
b8e1d9c [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
a8704c1 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
e1b8b25 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
87aa75c [Andrew Or] Fix mima excludes again (typo)
11eb921 [Andrew Or] Clarify comment (minor)
50cae44 [Andrew Or] Remove now duplicate mima exclude
7de5ef9 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
df47265 [Andrew Or] Fix binary incompatibility
6d05a81 [Andrew Or] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into them-rdd-memories
f94f5af [Andrew Or] Update a few comments (minor)
776aec9 [Andrew Or] Prevent OOM if a single RDD partition is too large
bbd3eea [Andrew Or] Fix CacheManagerSuite to use Array
97ea499 [Andrew Or] Change BlockManager interface to use Arrays
c12f093 [Andrew Or] Add SizeTrackingAppendOnlyBuffer and tests

(This is a replacement of #1399, trying to fix potential `HiveThriftServer2` port collision between parallel builds. Please refer to [these comments](https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1399#issuecomment-50212572) for details.)

JIRA issue: [SPARK-2410](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2410)

Merging the Hive Thrift/JDBC server from [branch-1.0-jdbc](https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/branch-1.0-jdbc).

Thanks chenghao-intel for his initial contribution of the Spark SQL CLI.

Author: Cheng Lian <lian.cs.zju@gmail.com>

Closes #1600 from liancheng/jdbc and squashes the following commits:

ac4618b [Cheng Lian] Uses random port for HiveThriftServer2 to avoid collision with parallel builds
090beea [Cheng Lian] Revert changes related to SPARK-2678, decided to move them to another PR
21c6cf4 [Cheng Lian] Updated Spark SQL programming guide docs
fe0af31 [Cheng Lian] Reordered spark-submit options in spark-shell[.cmd]
199e3fb [Cheng Lian] Disabled MIMA for hive-thriftserver
1083e9d [Cheng Lian] Fixed failed test suites
7db82a1 [Cheng Lian] Fixed spark-submit application options handling logic
9cc0f06 [Cheng Lian] Starts beeline with spark-submit
cfcf461 [Cheng Lian] Updated documents and build scripts for the newly added hive-thriftserver profile
061880f [Cheng Lian] Addressed all comments by @pwendell
7755062 [Cheng Lian] Adapts test suites to spark-submit settings
40bafef [Cheng Lian] Fixed more license header issues
e214aab [Cheng Lian] Added missing license headers
b8905ba [Cheng Lian] Fixed minor issues in spark-sql and start-thriftserver.sh
f975d22 [Cheng Lian] Updated docs for Hive compatibility and Shark migration guide draft
3ad4e75 [Cheng Lian] Starts spark-sql shell with spark-submit
a5310d1 [Cheng Lian] Make HiveThriftServer2 play well with spark-submit
61f39f4 [Cheng Lian] Starts Hive Thrift server via spark-submit
2c4c539 [Cheng Lian] Cherry picked the Hive Thrift server

Stage description should be a `String`, but was changed to an `Option[String]` by mistake:

![stage-desc-small](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/230655/3655611/f6d0b0f6-117b-11e4-83ed-71000dcd5009.png)

Author: Cheng Lian <lian.cs.zju@gmail.com>

Closes #1524 from liancheng/fix-stage-desc and squashes the following commits:

3c69327 [Cheng Lian] Fixed stage description object type in Web UI stage table

This will decrease object allocation from the "update" closure used in map.changeValue.

Author: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>

Closes #1607 from mateiz/spark-2684 and squashes the following commits:

b7d89e6 [Matei Zaharia] Add insertAll for Iterables too, and fix some code style
561fc97 [Matei Zaharia] Update ExternalAppendOnlyMap to take an iterator as input

Added a set of serializer/deserializer for Double in _common.py and PythonMLLibAPI in MLLib.

Author: Doris Xin <doris.s.xin@gmail.com>

Closes #1581 from dorx/doubleSerDe and squashes the following commits:

86a85b3 [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into doubleSerDe
2bfe7a4 [Doris Xin] Removed magic byte
ad4d0d9 [Doris Xin] removed a space in unit
a9020bc [Doris Xin] units passed
7dad9af [Doris Xin] WIP

We saw task serialization problems with large feature dimension, which could be avoid if we don't serialize data directly into task but use broadcast variables. This PR uses broadcast in both training and prediction and adds tests to make sure the task size is small.

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #1427 from mengxr/broadcast-new and squashes the following commits:

b9a1228 [Xiangrui Meng] style update
b97c184 [Xiangrui Meng] minimal change to LBFGS
9ebadcc [Xiangrui Meng] add task size test to RowMatrix
9427bf0 [Xiangrui Meng] add task size tests to linear methods
e0a5cf2 [Xiangrui Meng] add task size test to GD
28a8411 [Xiangrui Meng] add test for NaiveBayes
380778c [Xiangrui Meng] update KMeans test
bccab92 [Xiangrui Meng] add task size test to LBFGS
02103ba [Xiangrui Meng] remove print
e73d68e [Xiangrui Meng] update tests for k-means
174cb15 [Xiangrui Meng] use local-cluster for test with a small akka.frameSize
1928a5a [Xiangrui Meng] add test for KMeans task size
e00c2da [Xiangrui Meng] use broadcast in GD, KMeans
010d076 [Xiangrui Meng] modify NaiveBayesModel and GLM to use broadcast

Author: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>

Closes #1593 from mateiz/spark-2680 and squashes the following commits:

3c949c4 [Matei Zaharia] Lower spark.shuffle.memoryFraction to 0.2 by default

Similar to SPARK-1034, the problem was that Py4J didn’t cope well with the fake ClassTags used in the Java API.  It doesn’t look like there’s any reason why PythonRDD needs to take a ClassTag, since it just ignores the type of the previous RDD, so I removed the type parameter and we no longer pass ClassTags from Python.

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@apache.org>

Closes #1605 from JoshRosen/spark-2601 and squashes the following commits:

b68e118 [Josh Rosen] Fix Py4J error when transforming pickleFiles [SPARK-2601]

handleMessageExecutor, handleReadWriteExecutor, and handleConnectExecutor are not marked as daemon and not named. I think there exists some condition in which Spark programs won't terminate because of this.

Stack dump attached in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2704

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>

Closes #1604 from rxin/daemon and squashes the following commits:

98d6a6c [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-2704] Name threads in ConnectionManager and mark them as daemon.

Added emptyRDD method to Java API with tests.

Author: bpaulin <bob@bobpaulin.com>

Closes #1597 from bobpaulin/SPARK-2279 and squashes the following commits:

5ad57c2 [bpaulin] [SPARK-2279] Added emptyRDD method to Java API

Add several default configs for PySpark, related to serialization in JVM.

spark.serializer = org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer
spark.serializer.objectStreamReset = 100
spark.rdd.compress = True

This will help to reduce the memory usage during RDD.partitionBy()

Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>

Closes #1568 from davies/conf and squashes the following commits:

cd316f1 [Davies Liu] remove duplicated line
f71a355 [Davies Liu] rebase to master, add spark.rdd.compress = True
8f63f45 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' into conf
8bc9f08 [Davies Liu] fix unittest
c04a83d [Davies Liu] some default configs for PySpark

The current default value of spark.serializer.objectStreamReset is 10,000.
When trying to re-partition (e.g., to 64 partitions) a large file (e.g., 500MB), containing 1MB records, the serializer will cache 10000 x 1MB x 64 ~= 640 GB which will cause out of memory errors.

This patch sets the default value to a more reasonable default value (100).

Author: Hossein <hossein@databricks.com>

Closes #1595 from falaki/objectStreamReset and squashes the following commits:

650a935 [Hossein] Updated documentation
1aa0df8 [Hossein] Reduce default value of spark.serializer.objectStreamReset

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@apache.org>

Closes #1596 from JoshRosen/spark-1458 and squashes the following commits:

fdbb0bf [Josh Rosen] Add SparkContext.version to Python & Java [SPARK-1458]

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #1557 from marmbrus/fixDivision and squashes the following commits:

b85077f [Michael Armbrust] Fix unit tests.
af98f29 [Michael Armbrust] Change DIV to long type
0c29ae8 [Michael Armbrust] Fix division semantics for hive

This is part of the scheduler cleanup/refactoring effort to make the scheduler code easier to maintain.

@kayousterhout @markhamstra please take a look ...

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>

Closes #1561 from rxin/dagSchedulerHashMaps and squashes the following commits:

1c44e15 [Reynold Xin] Clear pending tasks in submitMissingTasks.
620a0d1 [Reynold Xin] Use filterKeys.
5b54404 [Reynold Xin] Code review feedback.
c1e9a1c [Reynold Xin] Removed some HashMaps from DAGScheduler by storing information in Stage.