@Kit Menke I already have a DF that I want to save in orc format. in your solution it is expecting a RDD. when I tried, val df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(results.rdd) it gave me an error saying, [A <: Product](rdd: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[A])(implicit evidence$1: reflect.runtime.universe.TypeTag[A])org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame cannot be applied to (org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[org.apache.spark.sql.Row]) ... View more