Overview of New Features and Improvements in Apache Spark 3.0
Apache Spark 3.0 introduces a suite of performance enhancements, richer APIs, improved monitoring, SQL compatibility, new data sources, and ecosystem extensions, including Adaptive Query Execution, Dynamic Partition Pruning, Join Hints, pandas UDF improvements, and accelerator‑aware scheduling, to boost scalability and ease of use for big‑data workloads.