Spark Connect Dotnet November 2024 Where are we?
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Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last couple of months and I just wanted to give a quick update on the current...
2024-11-16
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Spark Connect Dotnet Variant Data Type
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I recently published the latest version of the Spark Connect Dotnet library which includes support for the new Variant data type in Apache Spark 4.0 here....
2024-10-12
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Delta Lake from .NET in a Spark Connect gRPC world
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What to do? At some point we will want to do something with delta lake and so I wanted to explore the options. Before we do...
2024-02-17
Implementing functions and more fun in Spark Connect using gRPC and .NET
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Goal of this post The goal of this post is to look at creating a SparkSession and a DataFrame that will wrap the Range relation and...
2024-02-10
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Apache Spark from PHP - it is not just a .NET thing
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Goal of this post I wanted to explore what the Spark Connect API looked like from other languages, I am not a php developer - I...
2024-02-10
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Moving towards the DataFrame API using the Spark Connect gRPC API in .NET
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Goal of this post So there are two goals of this post, the first is to take a look at Apache Arrow and how we can...
2024-02-05
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Exploring the Spark Connect gRPC API more
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Goal of this post In this post we will continue looking at the gRPC API and the AnalyzePlan method which takes a plan and analyzes it....
2024-02-01
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Exploring the Spark Connect gRPC API
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Goal of this post In the first two posts, we looked at how to run some Spark code, firstly against a local Spark Connect server and...
2024-01-26
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Using Spark Connect from .NET to run Spark jobs on Databricks
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Goal of this post This post aims to show how we can create a .NET application, deploy it to Databricks, and then run a Databricks job...
2024-01-24 (first published: 2024-01-23)
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Using Spark Connect from .NET
Introductory Ramble Spark Connect In July 2022, at the Data and AI summit, Apache Spark announced “Spark Connect,” which was a way of connecting to Apache Spark using the...
2024-01-31 (first published: 2024-01-17)
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