Apache Spark

Overview

Apache Spark is the standard for distributed data processing. It handles batch processing, streaming, SQL, machine learning, and graph processing. PySpark provides a Python API. Runs on standalone clusters, YARN, Kubernetes, or managed services (Databricks, EMR, Dataproc).

Instructions

Step 1: PySpark Setup

pip install pyspark

Step 2: DataFrame Operations

# etl/process.py — PySpark data processing
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession