PySpark DataFrames

PySpark DataFrames is a distributed collection of data organized into named columns, similar to a table in a relational database or a DataFrame in R/Python. PySpark DataFrames are an abstraction on top of RDDs and provide a more concise and efficient way to handle structured data. Not only are they easy to understand, but their operations are optimized compared to RDDs. This is because of the inbuilt optimization. DataFrames are immutable, which means that any transformation operation on a DataFrame will create a new DataFrame.

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