Apache Spark is a pghtning-fast cluster computing designed for fast computation. It was built on top of Hadoop MapReduce and it extends the MapReduce model to efficiently use more types of computations which includes Interactive Queries and Stream Processing. This is a brief tutorial that explains the basics of Spark SQL programming.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared for professionals aspiring to learn the basics of Big Data Analytics using Spark Framework and become a Spark Developer. In addition, it would be useful for Analytics Professionals and ETL developers as well.

Prerequisites

Before you start proceeding with this tutorial, we assume that you have prior exposure to Scala programming, database concepts, and any of the Linux operating system flavors.