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Dongjoon Hyun updated SPARK-45891:
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Labels: pull-request-available releasenotes (was: pull-request-available)
> Support Variant data type
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> Key: SPARK-45891
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-45891
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 4.0.0
> Reporter: Chenhao Li
> Assignee: Chenhao Li
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available, releasenotes
> Fix For: 4.0.0
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> I propose to add a Variant data type in Spark. It is used to efficiently
> represent semi-structured values without a user-specified schema. Currently,
> many users are depending on JSON expressions to handle JSON data, which can
> often lead to repeated JSON parsing and degraded performance. One of the
> major goals of the Variant type is to use a more efficient binary
> representation internally and avoid repeated JSON parsing. At the same time,
> it keeps the flexibility of schemaless JSON data.
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