Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

As new Spark releases come out for each development stream, previous ones will be archived, but they are still available at Spark release archives. NOTE: Previous releases of Spark may be affected by …

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’s shell provides a simple way to learn the API, as well as a powerful tool to analyze data interactively. It is available in either Scala (which runs on the Java VM and is thus a good way to use …

Dec 11, 2025 · PySpark combines Python’s learnability and ease of use with the power of Apache Spark to enable processing and analysis of data at any size for everyone familiar with Python. PySpark …

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

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 …

Nov 19, 2025 · We’re proud to announce the release of Spark 0.7.0, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a Python API for Spark and an alpha of Spark Streaming.

The Spark SQL engine will take care of running it incrementally and continuously and updating the final result as streaming data continues to arrive. You can use the Dataset/DataFrame API in Scala, Java, …