June 2026
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
10h 46m
English
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Index
A
- accelerators, Going Beyond the JVM with Spark Accelerators-Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
- Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
- Comet, Apache Arrow DataFusion Comet
- Databricks Photon, Databricks Photon
- Project Gluten, Project Gluten-Gluten’s future
- Spark RAPIDS, Spark RAPIDS-Project health
- Velox, Project Gluten-Velox + Gluten
- accumulators
- RDDs and transformations, Interaction with Accumulators
- reducing setup overhead for transformations, Accumulators-Accumulators
- validating jobs with, Accumulators and Built-In Counters
- actions
- key/value pairs, Actions on Key/Value Pairs
- multiple on the same RDD, Multiple actions on the same RDD
- transformations functions versus, Functions on RDDs: Transformations Versus Actions
- adaptive query execution (AQE), Metastore tables
- agg API, Aggregates, groupBy, and coGroup
- aggregate functions
- aggregateByKey, Reusing Existing Objects, Dictionary of Aggregation Operations with Performance Considerations
- aggregateColumnFrequencies, Sort and count values on each partition
- user-defined, Extending with User-Defined Functions (UDFs), Aggregate Functions (UDAFs), and Expressions-User-Defined Table Functions, User-defined functions in PySpark with and without Arrow
- aggregates (Spark SQL), Aggregates, groupBy, and coGroup-Aggregates, groupBy, and coGroup
- aggregation operations
- avoiding memory allocation, Dictionary of Aggregation Operations with Performance Considerations
- preventing out-of-memory errors, Preventing ...
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