It is the below line which is setting the data types for both the fields as StringType:    val schema = StructType( schemaString.split(" ").map(fieldName => StructField(fieldName, StringType, true))) You can define your custom schema as follows :    val customSchema = StructType(Array( StructField("name", StringType, true), StructField("age", IntegerType, true))) You can add additional fields as well in the above schema definition.   And then you can use this customSchema while creating the dataframe as follows:    val peopleDataFrame = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rowRDD, customSchema)   Also for details, please see this page.  ... View more

While you are waiting on a Hue expert on this I wanted to chime in on the Quickstart VM just in case it applies to this instance.   A little more information on how you set up the VM may be helpful. We have a Community Article on How to Set Up Cloudera Quickstart VM which may also be of interest. It states, specifically, around using Cloudera Manager in the VM, a minimum of 8 GiB of RAM and 2 virtual CPU cores is required. After launching Cloudera Manager, all of the services in CDH are started, although it might take several minutes for Cloudera Manager to start all of the services. To conserve resources and improve performance, it is recommended that you stop services you do not plan to use.   I hope this helps. ... View more

"sqoop" causes errors in the <command> tag.  See OOZIE-2816 for some detail ... View more