Fall 2020 Setup Guide [For Q2] Getting Started A video tutorial has been created to help walk you through the steps in this document. You can view it here. This is a setup guide for Databricks. For Q2, we will use the Databricks platform to execute Spark/Scala tasks. Databricks has excellent documentation and we defer to their guidance instead of reproducing it here. Follow these steps to get started: 1. Create a Community Edition (https://community.cloud.databricks.com/) account on Databricks. Do NOT select Databricks Platform - Free Trial; if you do, you will encounter many problems in the subsequent ...
Getting started with Apache Spark on Azure Databricks Apache Spark Apache Spark™ is a powerful open-source processing engine built Azure Databricks is a “first party” Microsoft service, the result of a around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics. In this tutorial, unique collaboration between the Microsoft and Databricks teams to you will get familiar with the Spark UI, learn how to create Spark jobs, provide Databricks’ Apache Spark-based analytics service as an integral load data and work with Datasets, get familiar with Spark’s DataFrames part of the Microsoft Azure platform. It is natively integrated with API, run ...