Unexpected behavior of Spark dataframe filter method

Christos - Iraklis TsatsoulisBig Data, Spark

[EDIT: Thanks to this post, the issue reported here has been resolved since Spark 1.4.1 – see the comments below] While writing the previous post on Spark dataframes, I encountered an unexpected behavior of the respective .filter method; but, on the one hand, I needed some more time to experiment and confirm it and, on the other hand, I knew …