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

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 and may be …

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 Connect server, …

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 supported version of Java.

Spark provides three locations to configure the system: Spark properties control most application parameters and can be set by using a SparkConf object, or through Java system properties. …

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 batch …

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.

Spark runs on Hadoop, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, standalone, or in the cloud, against diverse data sources. You can run Spark using its standalone cluster mode, on EC2, on Hadoop YARN, on …

Apache Spark 4.0.0 marks a significant milestone as the inaugural release in the 4.x series, embodying the collective effort of the vibrant open-source community.

Dependency changes While being a maintenance release we did still upgrade some dependencies in this release they are: [SPARK-50886]: Upgrade Avro to 1.11.4 You can consult JIRA for the detailed …