It doesn't seem spark sql with hive supports "sql like". Here is the example code that I use for testing in spark-shell
case class Department(id: String, name: String)
val department1 = new Department("123456", "Computer Science")
val department2 = new Department("789012", "Mechanical Engineering")
val department3 = new Department("345678", "Theater and Drama")
val department4 = new Department("901234", "Indoor Recreation")
val dSeq = Seq(department1, department2, department3, department4)
val dfd = dSeq.toDF()
dfd.registerTempTable("departments")
val re=sqlContext.sql("select * from departments where name like '*Rec*'")
re.show()
It will show no result. and I check the sqlContext and it is hiveContext
scala> sqlContext
res15: org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext =org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext@4f03729f
Does any one know why?