This is an elaboration of the Apache Spark mllib-progamming-guide on mllib-data-types.
Overview
Data Types - MLlib Programming Guide
MLlib supports local vectors and matrices stored on a single machine, as well as distributed matrices backed by one or more RDDs. Local vectors and local matrices are simple data models that serve as public interfaces. The underlying linear algebra operations are provided by Breeze and jblas. A training example used in supervised learning is called a “labeled point” in MLlib.
Why are we going through the basic distributed linear algebra Data Types?
This is to get you to be able to directly use them in a project or to roll your own algorithms.