An introduction to Apache Spark

Apache Spark is an open source cluster computer system with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Spark was originally created at AMPlab from UC Berkeley; the main goal of Spark is to be fast to run and read and to apply in-memory processing. Spark allows you to manipulate distributed datasets, such as local collections. In this section, we will present the basic operations with Spark programming model and its ecosystem.

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We can find more information about pandas from its website:

http://spark.apache.org/

The Spark ecosystem

Spark comes with a lot of high-level libraries for SQL querying, machine learning, graph processing, and streaming data. These libraries provide all inclusive environment ready to use. ...

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