Apache Spark™ Documentation Setup instructions, programming guides, and other documentation are available for each stable version of Spark below: Spark Spark 4.1.0

Dec 11, 2025 · Spark Connect is a client-server architecture within Apache Spark that enables remote connectivity to Spark clusters from any application. PySpark provides the client for the Spark …

There are more guides shared with other languages such as Quick Start in Programming Guides at the Spark documentation. There are live notebooks where you can try PySpark out without any other step:

Types of time windows Spark supports three types of time windows: tumbling (fixed), sliding and session. Tumbling windows are a series of fixed-sized, non-overlapping and contiguous time …

If you’d like to build Spark from source, visit Building Spark. Spark runs on both Windows and UNIX-like systems (e.g. Linux, Mac OS), and it should run on any platform that runs a supported version of Java.

Spark 3.5.5 released We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 3.5.5! Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today. Spark News Archive

Apache Spark’s ability to choose the best execution plan among many possible options is determined in part by its estimates of how many rows will be output by every node in the execution plan (read, filter, …

Spark Streaming is an extension of the core Spark API that enables scalable, high-throughput, fault-tolerant stream processing of live data streams. Data can be ingested from many sources like Kafka, …

With Spark 3.4 and Spark Connect, the development of Spark Client Applications is simplified, and clear extension points and guidelines are provided on how to build Spark Server Libraries, making it easy …

Apache Spark supports SQL pipe syntax which allows composing queries from combinations of operators. Any query can have zero or more pipe operators as a suffix, delineated by the pipe …