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 …

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 …

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 4.1.0

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …