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Apache Spark™ - Unified Engine for large-scale data analytics
Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.
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Apache Spark™ - Unified Engine for large-scale data analytics Download Libraries SQL and DataFrames Spark Connect Spark Streaming pandas on Spark MLlib (machine learning) GraphX (deprecated) Third-Party Projects Documentation Latest Release Older Versions and Other Resources Frequently Asked Questions Examples Community Mailing Lists & Resources Contributing to Spark Improvement Proposals (SPIP) Issue Tracker Powered By Project Committers Project History Privacy Policy Developers Useful Developer Tools Versioning Policy Release Process Security GitHub spark spark-connect-go spark-connect-rust spark-connect-swift spark-docker spark-kubernetes-operator spark-website Apache Software Foundation Apache Homepage License Sponsorship Thanks Event Unified engine for large-scale data analytics Get Started What is Apache Spark™? Apache Spark™ is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters. Simple. Fast. Scalable. Unified. Key features Batch/streaming data Unify the processing of your data in batches and real-time streaming, using your preferred language: Python, SQL, Scala, Java or R. SQL analytics Execute fast, distributed ANSI SQL queries for dashboarding and ad-hoc reporting. Runs faster than most data warehouses. Data science at scale Perform Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on petabyte-scale data without having to resort to downsampling Machine learning Train machine learning algorithms on a laptop and use the same code to scale to fault-tolerant clusters of thousands of machines. Python SQL Scala Java R Run now Install with 'pip' $ pip install pyspark $ pyspark Use the official Docker image $ docker run -it --rm spark:python3 /opt/spark/bin/pyspark QuickStart Machine Learning Analytics & Data Science df = spark.read.json("logs.json") df.where("age > 21").select("name.first").show() # Every record contains a label and feature vector df = spark.createDataFrame(data, ["label", "features"]) # Split the data into train/test datasets train_df, test_df = df.randomSplit([.80, .20], seed=42) # Set hyperparameters for the algorithm rf = RandomForestRegressor(numTrees=100) # Fit the model to the training data model = rf.fit(train_df) # Generate predictions on the test dataset. model.transform(test_df).show() df = spark.read.csv("accounts.csv", header=True) # Select subset of features and filter for balance > 0 filtered_df = df.select("AccountBalance", "CountOfDependents").filter("AccountBalance > 0") # Generate summary statistics filtered_df.summary().show() Run now $ docker run -it --rm spark /opt/spark/bin/spark-sql spark-sql> SELECT name.first AS first_name, name.last AS last_name, age FROM json.`logs.json` WHERE age > 21; Run now $ docker run -it --rm spark /opt/spark/bin/spark-shell scala> val df = spark.read.json("logs.json") df.where("age > 21") .select("name.first").show() Run now $ docker run -it --rm spark /opt/spark/bin/spark-shell scala> Dataset df = spark.read().json("logs.json"); df.where("age > 21") .select("name.first").show(); Run now $ docker run -it --rm spark:r /opt/spark/bin/sparkR > df <- read.json(path = "logs.json") df <- filter(df, df$age > 21) head(select(df, df$name.first)) The most widely-used engine for scalable computing Thousands of companies, including 80% of the Fortune 500, use Apache Spark™. Over 2,000 contributors to the open source project from industry and academia. Ecosystem Apache Spark™ integrates with your favorite frameworks, helping to scale them to thousands of machines. Data science and Machine learning SQL analytics and BI Storage and Infrastructure Spark SQL engine: under the hood Apache Spark™ is built on an advanced distributed SQL engine for large-scale data Adaptive Query Execution Spark SQL adapts the execution plan at runtime, such as automatically setting the number of reducers and join algorithms. Support for ANSI SQL Use the same SQL you’re already comfortable with. Structured and unstructured data Spark SQL works on structured tables and unstructured data such as JSON or images. TPC-DS 1TB No-Stats With vs. Without Adaptive Query Execution Accelerates TPC-DS queries up to 8x Join the community Spark has a thriving open source community, with contributors from around the globe building features, documentation and assisting other users. Mailing list Source code News and events How to contribute Issue tracking Committers Apache Spark, Spark, Apache, the Apache feather logo, and the Apache Spark project logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation in the United States and other countries. See guidance on use of Apache Spark trademarks. All other marks mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2018 The Apache Software Foundation, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.