Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

If you’d like to build Spark from source, visit Building Spark. Spark runs on both Windows and UNIX-like systems (e.g. Linux, Mac OS), and it should run on any platform that runs a …

Spark docker images are available from Dockerhub under the accounts of both The Apache Software Foundation and Official Images. Note that, these images contain non-ASF software …

To follow along with this guide, first, download a packaged release of Spark from the Spark website. Since we won’t be using HDFS, you can download a package for any version of …

Apache Spark™ Documentation Setup instructions, programming guides, and other documentation are available for each stable version of Spark below: Spark

Spark allows you to perform DataFrame operations with programmatic APIs, write SQL, perform streaming analyses, and do machine learning. Spark saves you from learning multiple …

Spark Connect is a client-server architecture within Apache Spark that enables remote connectivity to Spark clusters from any application. PySpark provides the client for the Spark …

Spark SQL is a Spark module for structured data processing. Unlike the basic Spark RDD API, the interfaces provided by Spark SQL provide Spark with more information about the structure …

Structured Streaming is a scalable and fault-tolerant stream processing engine built on the Spark SQL engine. You can express your streaming computation the same way you would express a …

To use Arrow when executing these, users need to set the Spark configuration ‘spark.sql.execution.arrow.sparkr.enabled’ to ‘true’ first. This is disabled by default.