Spark has evolved considerably since the early days. Few new applications today use the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), which have largely been replaced by DataFrames. In concert with the shift ...

The Python-versus-R-in-Spark discussion also carries over to the production side of the equation. In the olden days of Spark (i.e. 18 months ago), putting a Spark job into production often required ...

Spark also provides many language choices, including Scala, Java, Python, and R. The 2015 Spark Survey that polled the Spark community shows particularly rapid growth in Python and R.

AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services, showcases Python and Apache Spark capabilities in a version 4.0 release introduced this week. The upgrade adds ...