Support reading SparseVectors and Vectors

[abditag2]

Would be very useful if petastorm can read these two data types from HDFS.

[selitvin]

Agreed. We can try and add. Not sure about the time-frame for this though.

[mengxr]

Efficient conversion requires Scala UDFs. Maybe we should add utility methods to Spark so in petastorm we can do the following:

from pyspark.ml.functions import vector_to_dense_array
df.select(vector_to_dense_array(col("features")).alias("features"))

This approach doesn't require Scala code in petastorm. Created a Spark JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-30154.

cc: @WeichenXu123

[mengxr]

FYI. The UDF was merged into Spark master: apache/spark#26910