- Developers have always loved Apache Spark for providing APIs that are simple yet powerful, a combination of traits that makes complex analysis possible with minimal programmer effort.At Databricks, we have continued to push Spark’s usability and performance envelope through the introduction of DataFrames and Spark SQL. These are high-level APIs for working with structured data (e.g. database tables, JSON files), which let Spark automatically optimize both storage and computation. Behind these APIs, the Catalyst optimizer and Tungsten execution engine optimize applications in ways that were not possible with Spark’s object-oriented (RDD) API, such as operating on data in a raw binary form.
- Today we’re excited to announce Spark Datasets, an extension of the DataFrame API that provides a type-safe, object-oriented programming interface. Spark 1.6 includes an API preview of Datasets, and they will be a development focus for the next several versions of Spark. Like DataFrames, Datasets take advantage of Spark’s Catalyst optimizer by exposing expressions and data fields to a query planner.Datasets also leverage Tungsten’s fast in-memory encoding.Datasets extend these benefits with compile-time type safety – meaning production applications can be checked for errors before they are run. They also allow direct operations over user-defined classes.
- In the long run, we expect Datasets to become a powerful way to write more efficient Spark applications. We have designed them to work alongside the existing RDD API, but improve efficiency when data can be represented in a structured form.Spark 1.6 offers the first glimpse at Datasets, and we expect to improve them in future releases.
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