diff --git a/spark/sql-13/src/itest/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/integration/AbstractScalaEsSparkSQL.scala b/spark/sql-13/src/itest/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/integration/AbstractScalaEsSparkSQL.scala
index a46f58367..919830745 100644
--- a/spark/sql-13/src/itest/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/integration/AbstractScalaEsSparkSQL.scala
+++ b/spark/sql-13/src/itest/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/integration/AbstractScalaEsSparkSQL.scala
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ class AbstractScalaEsScalaSparkSQL(prefix: String, readMetadata: jl.Boolean, pus
     val target = wrapIndex("sparksql-test/scala-basic-write")
 
     val newCfg = collection.mutable.Map(cfg.toSeq: _*) += ("es.read.field.include" -> "id, name, url")
-    
+
     val dataFrame = sqc.esDF(target, newCfg)
     assertTrue(dataFrame.count > 300)
     val schema = dataFrame.schema.treeString
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ class AbstractScalaEsScalaSparkSQL(prefix: String, readMetadata: jl.Boolean, pus
     val target = wrapIndex("sparksql-test/scala-basic-write")
 
     val dfNoQuery = JavaEsSparkSQL.esDF(sqc, target, cfg.asJava)
-    val query = s"""{ "query" : { "query_string" : { "query" : "name:me*" } } //, "fields" : ["name"] 
+    val query = s"""{ "query" : { "query_string" : { "query" : "name:me*" } } //, "fields" : ["name"]
                 }"""
     val dfWQuery = JavaEsSparkSQL.esDF(sqc, target, query, cfg.asJava)
 
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ class AbstractScalaEsScalaSparkSQL(prefix: String, readMetadata: jl.Boolean, pus
     val filter = df.filter(df("airport").equalTo("OTP"))
     if (strictPushDown) {
       assertEquals(0, filter.count())
-      // however if we change the arguments to be lower cased, it will Spark who's going to filter out the data
+      // however if we change the arguments to be lower cased, it will be Spark who's going to filter out the data
       return
     }
 
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ class AbstractScalaEsScalaSparkSQL(prefix: String, readMetadata: jl.Boolean, pus
 
     if (strictPushDown) {
       assertEquals(0, filter.count())
-      // however if we change the arguments to be lower cased, it will Spark who's going to filter out the data
+      // however if we change the arguments to be lower cased, it will be Spark who's going to filter out the data
       return
     }
 
@@ -525,6 +525,23 @@ class AbstractScalaEsScalaSparkSQL(prefix: String, readMetadata: jl.Boolean, pus
     assertEquals("jan", filter.select("tag").sort("tag").take(2)(1)(0))
   }
 
+  @Test
+  def testDataSourcePushDown08InWithNumber() {
+    val df = esDataSource("pd_in_number")
+    var filter = df.filter("participants IN (1, 2, 3)")
+
+    assertEquals(1, filter.count())
+    assertEquals("long", filter.select("tag").sort("tag").take(1)(0)(0))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  def testDataSourcePushDown08InWithNumberAndStrings() {
+    val df = esDataSource("pd_in_number")
+    var filter = df.filter("participants IN (2, 'bar', 1, 'foo')")
+
+    assertEquals(0, filter.count())
+  }
+
   @Test
   def testDataSourcePushDown09StartsWith() {
     val df = esDataSource("pd_starts_with")
diff --git a/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DataFrameValueWriter.scala b/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DataFrameValueWriter.scala
index d7906a327..b1024b3ca 100644
--- a/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DataFrameValueWriter.scala
+++ b/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DataFrameValueWriter.scala
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import scala.collection.Seq
 
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.DeveloperApi
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
-import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GenericRowWithSchema
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.ArrayType
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DataType
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DataTypes.BinaryType
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ class DataFrameValueWriter(writeUnknownTypes: Boolean = false) extends Filtering
 
   private[spark] def writeStruct(schema: StructType, value: Any, generator: Generator): Result = {
     value match {
-      case r: GenericRowWithSchema =>
+      case r: Row =>
         generator.writeBeginObject()
 
         schema.fields.view.zipWithIndex foreach {
diff --git a/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DefaultSource.scala b/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DefaultSource.scala
index 0f81bbe79..35c94a07a 100644
--- a/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DefaultSource.scala
+++ b/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/DefaultSource.scala
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.spark.sql
 
 import java.util.Locale
-
+import scala.None
+import scala.Null
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters.mapAsJavaMapConverter
 import scala.collection.mutable.LinkedHashMap
-
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
 import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.util.IOUtils
 import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.util.StringUtils
 import org.elasticsearch.spark.cfg.SparkSettingsManager
 import org.elasticsearch.spark.serialization.ScalaValueWriter
-import org.elasticsearch.spark.sql.Utils._
+import scala.collection.mutable.ListBuffer
+import scala.collection.mutable.LinkedHashSet
+import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps
 
 private[sql] class DefaultSource extends RelationProvider with SchemaRelationProvider with CreatableRelationProvider  {
 
@@ -152,8 +154,14 @@ private[sql] case class ElasticsearchRelation(parameters: Map[String, String], @
       case LessThan(attribute, value)           => s"""{"range":{"$attribute":{"lt" :${extract(value)}}}}"""
       case LessThanOrEqual(attribute, value)    => s"""{"range":{"$attribute":{"lte":${extract(value)}}}}"""
       case In(attribute, values)                => {
-        if (strictPushDown) s"""{"terms":{"$attribute":${extractAsJsonArray(values)}}}"""
-        else s"""{"query":{"match":{"$attribute":${extract(values)}}}}"""
+        // when dealing with mixed types (strings and numbers) Spark converts the Strings to null (gets confused by the type field)
+        // this leads to incorrect query DSL hence why nulls are filtered
+        val filtered = values filter (_ != null)
+        if (filtered.isEmpty) {
+          return ""
+      }
+        if (strictPushDown) s"""{"terms":{"$attribute":${extractAsJsonArray(filtered)}}}"""
+        else s"""{"or":{"filters":[${extractMatchArray(attribute, filtered)}]}}"""
       }
       case IsNull(attribute)                    => s"""{"missing":{"field":"$attribute"}}"""
       case IsNotNull(attribute)                 => s"""{"exists":{"field":"$attribute"}}"""
@@ -207,9 +215,39 @@ private[sql] case class ElasticsearchRelation(parameters: Map[String, String], @
     extract(value, true, true)
   }
 
+  private def extractMatchArray(attribute: String, ar: Array[Any]):String = {
+    // use a set to avoid duplicate values
+    // especially since Spark conversion might turn each user param into null
+    val numbers = LinkedHashSet.empty[AnyRef]
+    val strings = LinkedHashSet.empty[AnyRef]
+
+    // move numbers into a separate list for a terms query combined with a bool
+    for (i <- ar) i.asInstanceOf[AnyRef] match {
+      case null     => // ignore
+      case n:Number => numbers += extract(i, false, false)
+      case _        => strings += extract(i, false, false)
+    }
+
+    if (numbers.isEmpty) {
+     if (strings.isEmpty) {
+       return StringUtils.EMPTY
+     }
+     return s"""{"query":{"match":{"$attribute":${strings.mkString("\"", " ", "\"")}}}}"""
+     //s"""{"query":{"$attribute":${strings.mkString("\"", " ", "\"")}}}"""
+    }
+    else {
+      // translate the numbers into a terms query
+      val str = s"""{"terms":{"$attribute":${numbers.mkString("[", ",", "]")}}}"""
+      if (strings.isEmpty) return str
+      // if needed, add the strings as a match query
+      else return str + s""",{"query":{"match":{"$attribute":${strings.mkString("\"", " ", "\"")}}}}"""
+    }
+  }
+
   private def extract(value: Any, inJsonFormat: Boolean, asJsonArray: Boolean):String = {
     // common-case implies primitives and String so try these before using the full-blown ValueWriter
     value match {
+      case null           => "null"
       case u: Unit        => "null"
       case b: Boolean     => b.toString
       case c: Char        => if (inJsonFormat) StringUtils.toJsonString(c) else c.toString()
@@ -220,14 +258,14 @@ private[sql] case class ElasticsearchRelation(parameters: Map[String, String], @
       case f: Float       => f.toString
       case d: Double      => d.toString
       case s: String      => if (inJsonFormat) StringUtils.toJsonString(s) else s
+      case ar: Array[Any] =>
+        if (asJsonArray) (for (i <- ar) yield extract(i, true, false)).distinct.mkString("[", ",", "]")
+        else (for (i <- ar) yield extract(i, false, false)).distinct.mkString("\"", " ", "\"")
       // new in Spark 1.4
       case utf if (isClass(utf, "org.apache.spark.sql.types.UTF8String")
       // new in Spark 1.5
                    || isClass(utf, "org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8String"))
                           => if (inJsonFormat) StringUtils.toJsonString(utf.toString()) else utf.toString()
-      case ar: Array[Any] =>
-        if (asJsonArray) (for (i <- ar) yield extract(i, true, false)).mkString("[", ",", "]")
-        else (for (i <- ar) yield extract(i, false, false)).mkString("\"", " ", "\"")
       case a: AnyRef      => {
         val storage = new FastByteArrayOutputStream()
         val generator = new JacksonJsonGenerator(storage)
diff --git a/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/SchemaUtils.scala b/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/SchemaUtils.scala
index 6660cd9d3..f9ae2f6ba 100644
--- a/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/SchemaUtils.scala
+++ b/spark/sql-13/src/main/scala/org/elasticsearch/spark/sql/SchemaUtils.scala
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.spark.sql
 
 import java.util.Properties
-
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters.asScalaBufferConverter
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters.propertiesAsScalaMapConverter
 import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
-
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.BinaryType
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.BooleanType
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.ByteType
@@ -41,8 +39,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.dto.mapping.MappingUtils
 import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.util.Assert
 import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.util.IOUtils
 import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.util.StringUtils
-import org.elasticsearch.spark.sql.Utils.ROOT_LEVEL_NAME
-import org.elasticsearch.spark.sql.Utils.ROW_ORDER_PROPERTY
+import org.elasticsearch.spark.sql.Utils._
 
 private[sql] object SchemaUtils {
   case class Schema(field: Field, struct: StructType)
@@ -60,11 +57,11 @@ private[sql] object SchemaUtils {
     val repo = new RestRepository(cfg)
     try {
       if (repo.indexExists(true)) {
-        
+
         var field = repo.getMapping.skipHeaders()
         val readIncludeCfg = cfg.getProperty(readInclude)
         val readExcludeCfg = cfg.getProperty(readExclude)
-        
+
         // apply mapping filtering only when present to minimize configuration settings (big when dealing with large mappings)
         if (StringUtils.hasText(readIncludeCfg) || StringUtils.hasText(readExcludeCfg)) {
           // apply any possible include/exclude that can define restrict the DataFrame to just a number of fields