Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8270

Info: I can not build the latest master, it stucks during the build process: `[INFO] Dependency-reduced POM written at: /Users/tarek/test/spark/bagel/dependency-reduced-pom.xml`

Author: Tarek Auel <tarek.auel@googlemail.com>

Closes #7214 from tarekauel/SPARK-8270 and squashes the following commits:

ab348b9 [Tarek Auel] Merge branch 'master' into SPARK-8270
a2ad318 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-8270] changed order of fields
d91b12c [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-8270] python fix
adbd075 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-8270] fixed typo
23185c9 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-8270] levenshtein distance