Category: Spark

Apache Spark is a distributed computing framework used for processing large-scale data. It can be used to perform analytics, machine learning, and data processing tasks. In this blog, we will walk through the steps to install Spark on a Mac. Step 1: Install Java Spark requires Java 8 or later to be installed on your…

Apache Spark is a distributed computing system that can process large amounts of data efficiently and quickly. The project was developed by the Apache Software Foundation in 2009 at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab with the aim of improving the performance of Hadoop MapReduce, the then-popular big data processing framework. However, as the project progressed, Spark emerged…

To read a CSV file in Spark, you can use the read method of the SparkSession object, which is the entry point to Spark’s SQL functionality. Here is an example code snippet: In this example, we are using the format method to specify that the file is in CSV format, and the option method to…