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, …

Starting Up: SparkSession The entry point into SparkR is the SparkSession which connects your R program to a Spark cluster. You can create a SparkSession using sparkR.session and pass in …

Spark Streaming is an extension of the core Spark API that enables scalable, high-throughput, fault-tolerant stream processing of live data streams. Data can be ingested from many sources like Kafka, …

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.

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. …

Types of time windows Spark supports three types of time windows: tumbling (fixed), sliding and session. Tumbling windows are a series of fixed-sized, non-overlapping and contiguous time …

There are more guides shared with other languages such as Quick Start in Programming Guides at the Spark documentation. There are live notebooks where you can try PySpark out without any other step:

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 …

Spark Release 3.5.6 Spark 3.5.6 is the sixth maintenance release containing security and correctness fixes. This release is based on the branch-3.5 maintenance branch of Spark. We strongly …