What is difference between Spark and PySpark?

Question

Could someone tell me what is the difference between Spark and PySpark?

Answer 1

Spark or Apache Spark is the famous open-source cluster computing framework built to process Big Data, streaming analytics, with faster computing that is almost 100x of the Hadoop’s processing capabilities. Now, PySpark is more like Python API for Apache Spark, which combines the easy-to-use and easy-to-learn Python with powerful Apache Spark to get the best of both world’s for processing extremely large datasets.

If you are someone who is interested in learning more about PySpark, check out the PySpark certification course, from Intellipaat. Also, as a starter check out the following video on PySpark Tutorial for Beginners.