# Apache Spark SQL API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/apache-spark/apache-spark-sql-api/  
**Provider:** Apache Spark — https://apis.io/providers/apache-spark/  
**Documentation:** https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Apache Spark SQL API is one of 6 APIs that [Apache Spark](https://apis.io/providers/apache-spark/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include DataFrames, SQL, and Structured Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Spark module for structured data processing with DataFrame and Dataset APIs. Provides a SQL interface and supports various data sources including Parquet, ORC, JSON, CSV, JDBC, Hive, and Delta Lake. The Spark SQL API supports Scala, Python, Java, and R bindings.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html
- **SDKs** — https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/index.html
- **SDKs** — https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/pyspark.sql/index.html
- **SDKs** — https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/java/index.html?org/apache/spark/sql/package-summary.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-spark/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Apache Spark APIs (5)

- [Apache Spark Streaming API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-spark/apache-spark-streaming-api/)
- [Apache Spark MLlib API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-spark/apache-spark-mllib-api/)
- [Apache Spark GraphX API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-spark/apache-spark-graphx-api/)
- [Apache Spark Applications API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-spark/apache-spark-applications-api/)
- [Apache Spark Version API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-spark/apache-spark-version-api/)

## Tags

DataFrames, SQL, Structured Data

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