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 ...

As the most active open-source project in the big data community, Apache SparkTM has become the de-facto standard for big data processing and analytics. Spark’s ease of use, versatility, and ...

For instance, with Apache Spark having been written in Scala and optimized for running Scala or Java programs, this often left R and Python developers out in the cold.