Get Started with Apache Spark

Fast and general engine for large-scale data processing

Getting Started

The Apache Spark team maintains comprehensive docs that cover installation, configuration, and common patterns.

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Organizations needing fast, scalable data processing for big data applications

Teams working with real-time streaming data that require low-latency processing

Data science teams who need to train machine learning models on large datasets