Dec 11, 2025 · PySpark combines Python’s learnability and ease of use with the power of Apache Spark to enable processing and analysis of data at any size for everyone familiar with Python. PySpark …

Apache Spark™ Documentation Setup instructions, programming guides, and other documentation are available for each stable version of Spark below: Spark Spark 4.1.0

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:

Spark 3.5.5 released We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 3.5.5! Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today. Spark News Archive

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

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 …

Apache Spark’s ability to choose the best execution plan among many possible options is determined in part by its estimates of how many rows will be output by every node in the execution plan (read, filter, …

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 …

Nov 19, 2025 · We’re proud to announce the release of Spark 0.7.0, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a Python API for Spark and an alpha of Spark Streaming.

Spark now comes packaged with a self-contained Maven installation to ease building and deployment of Spark from source located under the build/ directory. This script will automatically download and …