What is PySpark?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2020

 

PySpark is the Python API written in python to support Apache Spark, which is a distributed framework that can handle Big Data analysis. Apache Spark is written in Scala and can be integrated with Python, Scala, Java, R, SQL languages. Spark is a computational engine, which works with huge sets of data by processing them in parallel and batch systems.

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