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package org.apache.spark

import org.apache.spark.annotation.{DeveloperApi, InterfaceStability}
import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkStrategy

/**
 * Allows the execution of relational queries, including those expressed in SQL using Spark.
 *
 *  @groupname dataType Data types
 *  @groupdesc Spark SQL data types.
 *  @groupprio dataType -3
 *  @groupname field Field
 *  @groupprio field -2
 *  @groupname row Row
 *  @groupprio row -1
 */
package object sql {

  /**
   * Converts a logical plan into zero or more SparkPlans.  This API is exposed for experimenting
   * with the query planner and is not designed to be stable across spark releases.  Developers
   * writing libraries should instead consider using the stable APIs provided in
   * [[org.apache.spark.sql.sources]]
   */
  @DeveloperApi
  @InterfaceStability.Unstable
  type Strategy = SparkStrategy

  type DataFrame = Dataset[Row]
}
