Introducing Apache Spark™ 3.2
We are excited to announce the availability of Apache Spark™ 3.2 on Databricks as part of Databricks Runtime 10.0. We want to thank…
Pandas API on Upcoming Apache Spark™ 3.2
We’re thrilled to announce that the pandas API will be part of the upcoming Apache Spark™ 3.2 release. pandas is a powerful, flexible…
Benchmark: Koalas (PySpark) and Dask
Koalas is a data science library that implements the pandas APIs on top of Apache Spark so data scientists can use their favorite…
Introducing Apache Spark™ 3.1
We are excited to announce the availability of Apache Spark 3.1 on Databricks as part of Databricks Runtime 8.0. We want to thank…
How to Manage Python Dependencies in PySpark
Controlling the environment of an application is often challenging in a distributed computing environment – it is difficult to ensure all nodes have…
Python Autocomplete Improvements for Databricks Notebooks
At Databricks, we strive to provide a world-class development experience for data scientists and engineers, and new features are constantly getting added to…
An Update on Project Zen: Improving Apache Spark for Python Users
Apache Spark™ has reached its 10th anniversary with Apache Spark 3.0 which has many significant improvements and new features including but not limited…
Interoperability between Koalas and Apache Spark
Koalas is an open source project which provides a drop-in replacement for pandas, enabling efficient scaling out to hundreds of worker nodes for…
A Comprehensive Look at Dates and Timestamps in Apache Spark™ 3.0
Apache Spark is a very popular tool for processing structured and unstructured data. When it comes to processing structured data, it supports many…
Introducing Koalas 1.0
Koalas was first introduced last year to provide data scientists using pandas with a way to scale their existing big data workloads by…
