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 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, …

While being a maintenance release we did still upgrade some dependencies in this release they are: [SPARK-50150]: Upgrade Jetty to 9.4.56.v20240826 [SPARK-50316]: Upgrade ORC to 1.9.5 You …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Specify the index column in conversion from Spark DataFrame to pandas-on-Spark DataFrame Use distributed or distributed-sequence default index Handling index misalignment with distributed …

DataFrame and Spark SQL share the same execution engine so they can be interchangeably used seamlessly. For example, you can register the DataFrame as a table and run a SQL easily as below: