Tutorial: Work with Apache Spark Scala DataFrames - Azure ...
learn.microsoft.com › dataframes-scalaOct 24, 2022 · Apache Spark DataFrames provide a rich set of functions (select columns, filter, join, aggregate) that allow you to solve common data analysis problems efficiently. Apache Spark DataFrames are an abstraction built on top of Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs). Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL use a unified planning and optimization engine, allowing you to get nearly identical performance across all supported languages on Azure Databricks (Python, SQL, Scala, and R).
Spark SQL Join Types with examples - Spark By {Examples}
sparkbyexamples.com › spark › spark-sql-dataframe-joinDecember 28, 2019. Spark DataFrame supports all basic SQL Join Types like INNER, LEFT OUTER, RIGHT OUTER, LEFT ANTI, LEFT SEMI, CROSS, SELF JOIN. Spark SQL Joins are wider transformations that result in data shuffling over the network hence they have huge performance issues when not designed with care. On the other hand Spark SQL Joins comes with more optimization by default (thanks to DataFrames & Dataset) however still there would be some performance issues to consider while using.