In concert with the shift to DataFrames, most applications today are using the Spark SQL engine, including many data science applications developed in Python and Scala languages. The Spark SQL engine ...

Python was already the most popular language in Spark before the latest batch of improvements (and Databricks and the Apache Spark community aren’t done). So it’s interesting to note the level of ...

But Spark has also had its share of impedance mismatch issues, such as making R and Python programs first-class citizens, or adapting to more compute-intensive processing of AI models.