title: error: not found: value sqlContext
body: <p>I would like to create a python application to analyze twitter streaming data using Apache Spark.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can use the functionality of Apache Spark streaming without setting up the Hadoop environment. How to run Apache Spark in standalone mode?
  I just downloaded the binaries and tried to run spark-shell, getting NullPointerException. Can someone please help.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;console&gt;:10: error: not found: value sqlContext
  import sqlContext.implicits.
  
  &lt;console&gt;:10: error: not found: value sqlContext
  import sqlContext.sql
  </code></pre>