databricks/Spark-The-Definitive-Guide resource
Spark: The Definitive Guide's Code Repository observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3397
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2198
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3144 stars · 2905 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
The official code repository for the book 'Spark: The Definitive Guide' by Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia, containing example code and datasets organized by chapter and language. It is a companion learning resource for Apache Spark, runnable locally or on Databricks notebooks.
Use cases
- learn apache spark from scratch
- find example code for spark dataframes and sql
- run spark book examples on databricks
- study structured streaming and mllib examples
- get sample datasets for practicing spark
When to choose
- you are reading Spark: The Definitive Guide and want its code
- you want runnable Spark examples in Scala and Python
- you want sample datasets to practice Spark locally or on Databricks
When to avoid
- you need a production Spark library or framework
- you want up-to-date examples for the latest Spark versions
- you need a maintained tool rather than book companion material
Facets
learning-resource · maturity maintenance
data-science etl developer-tools big-data tutorials jvm python cross-platform apache-spark book-code databricks scala pyspark notebooks data-engineering
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/databricks/Spark-The-Definitive-Guide · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4c08062590d5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| databricks/Spark-The-Definitive-Guide | main | 32 |
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