An Introduction to Spark

Beginner

26 Lessons

2h 50min

Certificate of Completion

An introductory course for getting familiar with Spark and learning the basics of manipulating data using Spark.

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This course includes

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This course includes

20 Playgrounds
20 Illustrations

Course Overview

Spark has come to dominate the big data processing space in a short span of time since its release and now serves as the de-facto unified big data processing engine in the industry. In this course, you will get a complete introduction to the basics of Spark. You will start by learning about the architecture, the application lifecycle, and its API. From there, you will dive into the data frame data structure and its API as well as the strongly-typed datasets API. Lastly, you’ll get into the Spark SQL engi...Show More

What You'll Learn

Basics of Spark

Spark Architecture

Spark SQL

Spark DataFrames

Spark Datasets

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