PySpark Cheat Sheet: Spark in Python

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Apache Spark is generally known as a fast, general and open-source engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing. It allows you to speed analytic applications up to 100 times faster compared to technologies on the market today. You can interface Spark with <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/python" target="_blank">Python</a> through “PySpark”. This is the Spark Python API exposes the Spark programming model to Python.