diff --git a/samples/scala/.gitignore b/samples/scala/.gitignore
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+airports.dat
+lib/
+spark-warehouse/
+
+dist/*
+target/
+lib_managed/
+src_managed/
+project/boot/
+project/plugins/project/
+.history
+.cache
+.lib/
+.env
+.idea/
+
diff --git a/samples/scala/README.md b/samples/scala/README.md
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+azure-cosmosdb-spark-samples-scala
+============================
+Examples of Cosmos DB on Spark that can serve as starting points for
+Scala-based Cosmos DB Spark projects.
+
+Setup
+-----
+Before running any of the samples, you will need
+
+1. A working version of SBT (or higher recommended).
+
+2. The following enviroment variables set:
+
+```
+export COSMOS_DB_ENDPOINT=
+export COSMOS_DB_MASTER_KEY=
+```
+
+3. A Cosmos DB database setup on Azure. You may run something like the
+following Azure CLI commands:
+
+```
+az cosmosdb database create --db-name samples --url-connection $COSMOS_DB_ENDPOINT --key $COSMOS_DB_MASTER_KEY
+az cosmosdb collection create --collection-name airports --db-name samples --throughput 5000 --url-connection $COSMOS_DB_ENDPOINT --key $COSMOS_DB_MASTER_KEY
+```
+
+Running Samples
+---------------
+The easiest way to run the samples is to build a uber jar and submit it to
+spark like so (replace
+`com.microsoft.partnercatalyst.cosmosdb.samples.CSVToCosmos` with your prefered
+sample):
+
+```
+sbt assembly
+spark-submit --class com.microsoft.partnercatalyst.cosmosdb.samples.CountByCountry target/scala-2.11/azure-cosmosdb-spark-samples-assembly-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
+```
+
+You may also run the examples by opening this project in IntelliJ.
+
diff --git a/samples/scala/build.sbt b/samples/scala/build.sbt
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+organization := "com.github.catalystcode"
+name := "azure-cosmosdb-spark-samples"
+description := "Scala examples of Cosmos DB on Spark that can serve as starting points for Cosmos DB-based Spark projects."
+
+scalaVersion := "2.11.7"
+
+scalacOptions ++= Seq(
+  "-unchecked",
+  "-deprecation",
+  "-feature"
+)
+
+val sparkVersion = "2.2.0"
+
+libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
+  "com.microsoft.azure" % "azure-documentdb" % "1.12.0",
+  "com.microsoft.azure" % "azure-documentdb-rx" % "0.9.0-rc1",
+  "com.microsoft.azure" % "azure-cosmosdb-spark_2.2.0_2.11" % "0.0.3" excludeAll(
+    ExclusionRule(organization = "org.apache.tinkerpop"),
+    ExclusionRule(organization = "com.fasterxml.jackson.core", name = "jackson-databind")
+  ),
+
+  "org.apache.tinkerpop" % "spark-gremlin" % "3.2.5" excludeAll(
+    ExclusionRule(organization = "org.apache.spark"),
+    ExclusionRule(organization = "org.scala-lang")
+  ),
+  "org.apache.tinkerpop" % "tinkergraph-gremlin" % "3.2.5",
+
+  "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-annotations" % "2.8.0",
+  "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-core" % "2.8.3",
+  "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-databind" % "2.8.3",
+  "com.fasterxml.jackson.module" % "jackson-module-paranamer" % "2.8.9",
+  "com.fasterxml.jackson.module" % "jackson-module-scala_2.11" % "2.8.9",
+
+  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % sparkVersion,
+  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % sparkVersion,
+  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-streaming" % sparkVersion,
+  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-mllib" % sparkVersion
+).map(_ % "compile")
+
+assemblyMergeStrategy in assembly := {
+ case PathList("META-INF", xs @ _*) => MergeStrategy.discard
+ case x => MergeStrategy.first
+}
+
diff --git a/samples/scala/project/assembly.sbt b/samples/scala/project/assembly.sbt
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+++ b/samples/scala/project/assembly.sbt
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+addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-assembly" % "0.14.5")
+
diff --git a/samples/scala/project/build.properties b/samples/scala/project/build.properties
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index 00000000..64317fda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/scala/project/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+sbt.version=0.13.15
diff --git a/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/Airport.scala b/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/Airport.scala
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+package com.microsoft.partnercatalyst.cosmosdb.samples
+
+case class Airport(airportId: String,
+                   name: String,
+                   city: String,
+                   country: String,
+                   iata: String /*	3-letter IATA code. Null if not assigned/unknown.*/ ,
+                   icao: String /*	4-letter ICAO code.*/ ,
+                   latitude: Double,
+                   longitude: Double,
+                   altitude: Double,
+                   timezone: Double,
+                   dst: String,
+                   tz: String,
+                   airportType: String,
+                   source: String)
diff --git a/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/CountAggregates.scala b/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/CountAggregates.scala
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+package com.microsoft.partnercatalyst.cosmosdb.samples
+
+import com.microsoft.azure.cosmosdb.spark.config.{Config, CosmosDBConfig}
+import com.microsoft.azure.cosmosdb.spark.schema._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.{Minutes, StreamingContext}
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
+
+object CountAggregates {
+
+  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
+    val appName = this.getClass.getSimpleName
+    val conf = new SparkConf()
+      .setAppName(appName)
+      .setIfMissing("spark.master", "local[*]")
+    val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
+    val ssc = new StreamingContext(sc, Minutes(1))
+    val spark = SparkSession.builder().appName(ssc.sparkContext.appName).getOrCreate()
+    import spark.implicits._
+
+    sc.setLogLevel("ERROR")
+
+    val configMap = Map[String, String](
+      CosmosDBConfig.Endpoint -> sys.env("COSMOS_DB_ENDPOINT"),
+      CosmosDBConfig.Masterkey -> sys.env("COSMOS_DB_MASTER_KEY"),
+      CosmosDBConfig.Database -> "samples",
+      CosmosDBConfig.Collection -> "airports",
+      CosmosDBConfig.ConnectionMode -> "Gateway"
+    )
+    val cosmosConfig = Config(configMap)
+
+    val airportsDF = spark.read.cosmosDB(cosmosConfig).as[Airport]
+    airportsDF.createOrReplaceTempView("airports")
+
+    spark.sqlContext.sql("select airports.country, count(1) as airport_count from airports group by airports.country")
+      .createOrReplaceTempView("airport_counts")
+
+    spark.sqlContext.sql("select min(airport_count), max(airport_count), avg(airport_count), stddev_pop(airport_count) from airport_counts")
+      .show()
+  }
+}
diff --git a/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/CountByCountry.scala b/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/CountByCountry.scala
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+package com.microsoft.partnercatalyst.cosmosdb.samples
+
+import com.microsoft.azure.cosmosdb.spark.config.{Config, CosmosDBConfig}
+import com.microsoft.azure.cosmosdb.spark.schema._
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.{Minutes, StreamingContext}
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
+
+object CountByCountry {
+
+  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
+    val appName = this.getClass.getSimpleName
+    val conf = new SparkConf()
+      .setAppName(appName)
+      .setIfMissing("spark.master", "local[*]")
+    val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
+    val ssc = new StreamingContext(sc, Minutes(1))
+    val spark = SparkSession.builder().appName(ssc.sparkContext.appName).getOrCreate()
+    import spark.implicits._
+
+    val cosmosConfig = Config(Map(
+      CosmosDBConfig.Endpoint -> sys.env("COSMOS_DB_ENDPOINT"),
+      CosmosDBConfig.Masterkey -> sys.env("COSMOS_DB_MASTER_KEY"),
+      CosmosDBConfig.Database -> "samples",
+      CosmosDBConfig.Collection -> "airports",
+      CosmosDBConfig.ConnectionMode -> "Gateway"
+    ))
+
+    val airportsDF = spark.read.cosmosDB(cosmosConfig).as[Airport]
+    airportsDF.cache()
+    airportsDF.show()
+
+    // Count number of aiports by country using reduceByKey from the incoming RDD
+    val rddStart = System.currentTimeMillis()
+    val reducedByKey = airportsDF.map(r=>(r.country, 1))
+      .rdd
+      .reduceByKey(_+_)
+      .toDF("country", "airport_count")
+    reducedByKey.show()
+    val rddStop = System.currentTimeMillis()
+
+    airportsDF.createOrReplaceTempView("airports")
+    val airportsTempView = airportsDF.sqlContext.table("airports")
+    airportsTempView.show()
+
+    // Perform the same count using SQL
+    val sqlStart = System.currentTimeMillis()
+    val counts = airportsDF.sqlContext.sql("select airports.country, count(1) as airport_count from airports group by airports.country")
+    counts.show()
+    val sqlStop = System.currentTimeMillis()
+
+    // Once again, perform the count by fetching from the temp table and calling reduceByKey.
+    val rdd2Start = System.currentTimeMillis()
+    airportsTempView.select("country", "airportId")
+      .rdd
+      .map(row=>(row.getString(1), 1))
+      .reduceByKey(_+_)
+      .toDF("country", "airport_count")
+      .show()
+    val rdd2Stop = System.currentTimeMillis()
+
+    println(s"sql time in millis: ${sqlStop - sqlStart}")
+    println(s"rdd time in millis: ${rddStop - rddStart}")
+    println(s"rdd2 time in millis: ${rdd2Stop - rdd2Start}")
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/UploadToCosmos.scala b/samples/scala/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/partnercatalyst/cosmosdb/samples/UploadToCosmos.scala
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+package com.microsoft.partnercatalyst.cosmosdb.samples
+
+import java.io.{File, PrintWriter}
+
+import com.microsoft.azure.cosmosdb.spark.config.{Config, CosmosDBConfig}
+import com.microsoft.azure.cosmosdb.spark.schema._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{SaveMode, SparkSession}
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.{Minutes, StreamingContext}
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
+
+object UploadToCosmos {
+
+  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
+    val appName = this.getClass.getSimpleName
+    val conf = new SparkConf()
+      .setAppName(appName)
+      .setIfMissing("spark.master", "local[*]")
+    val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
+    val ssc = new StreamingContext(sc, Minutes(1))
+    val spark = SparkSession.builder().appName(ssc.sparkContext.appName).getOrCreate()
+
+    // Originally referenced in https://github.com/dennyglee/databricks/blob/master/notebooks/Users/denny%40databricks.com/flights/On-Time%20Flight%20Performance.py
+    val writer = new PrintWriter(new File("airports.dat"))
+    scala.io.Source.fromURL("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpatokal/openflights/master/data/airports.dat").getLines().foreach(writer.println)
+
+    import spark.implicits._
+    val airports = spark.read.csv("airports.dat").map(row => {
+      Airport(
+        row.getString(0),
+        row.getString(1),
+        row.getString(2),
+        row.getString(3),
+        row.getString(4),
+        row.getString(5),
+        SafeStringToDouble(row.getString(6)),
+        SafeStringToDouble(row.getString(7)),
+        SafeStringToDouble(row.getString(8)),
+        SafeStringToDouble(row.getString(9)),
+        row.getString(10),
+        row.getString(11),
+        row.getString(12),
+        row.getString(13)
+      )
+    })
+    airports.show()
+
+    val cosmosConfig = Config(Map(
+      CosmosDBConfig.Endpoint -> sys.env("COSMOS_DB_ENDPOINT"),
+      CosmosDBConfig.Masterkey -> sys.env("COSMOS_DB_MASTER_KEY"),
+      CosmosDBConfig.Database -> "samples",
+      CosmosDBConfig.Collection -> "airports",
+      CosmosDBConfig.SamplingRatio -> "1.0",
+      CosmosDBConfig.QueryMaxRetryOnThrottled -> "10",
+      CosmosDBConfig.QueryMaxRetryWaitTimeSecs -> "10"
+    ))
+
+    airports.write.mode(SaveMode.Append).cosmosDB(cosmosConfig)
+  }
+
+  object SafeStringToDouble extends Serializable {
+    def apply(str: String): Double = {
+      try {
+        if (str == null) 0.0 else str.toDouble
+      } catch {
+        case nfe: NumberFormatException => 0.0
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+}
+
+