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 Few new applications today use the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), which have largely been replaced by DataFrames.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 Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and ...

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.

First unveiled at GitHub's annual Universe conference in October, Spark allows users to design and launch "micro apps," or "sparks," through natural language prompts.