In concert with the shift to DataFrames, most applications today are using the Spark SQL engine, including many data science applications developed in Python and Scala languages. The Spark SQL engine ...

Spark also provides many language choices, including Scala, Java, Python, and R. The 2015 Spark Survey that polled the Spark community shows particularly rapid growth in Python and R. Specifically ...

Spark apps can be written in Java, Scala, or Python, and have been clocked running 10 to 100 times faster than equivalent MapReduce apps. Matei Zaharia, the creator of Spark and CTO of commercial ...

But Spark has also had its share of impedance mismatch issues, such as making R and Python programs first-class citizens, or adapting to more compute-intensive processing of AI models.

AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services, showcases Python and Apache Spark capabilities in a version 4.0 release introduced this week. The upgrade adds ...