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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.SparkSession.html#pyspark.sql.SparkSession" title="pyspark.sql.SparkSession"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SparkSession</span></code></a>(sparkContext[, jsparkSession, …])</p></td>
<td><p>The entry point to programming Spark with the Dataset and DataFrame API.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.Catalog.html#pyspark.sql.Catalog" title="pyspark.sql.Catalog"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Catalog</span></code></a>(sparkSession)</p></td>
<td><p>User-facing catalog API, accessible through <cite>SparkSession.catalog</cite>.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a>(jdf, sql_ctx)</p></td>
<td><p>A distributed collection of data grouped into named columns.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.Column.html#pyspark.sql.Column" title="pyspark.sql.Column"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Column</span></code></a>(jc)</p></td>
<td><p>A column in a DataFrame.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.Observation.html#pyspark.sql.Observation" title="pyspark.sql.Observation"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Observation</span></code></a>([name])</p></td>
<td><p>Class to observe (named) metrics on a <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a>.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.Row.html#pyspark.sql.Row" title="pyspark.sql.Row"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Row</span></code></a></p></td>
<td><p>A row in <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a>.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.GroupedData.html#pyspark.sql.GroupedData" title="pyspark.sql.GroupedData"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GroupedData</span></code></a>(jgd, df)</p></td>
<td><p>A set of methods for aggregations on a <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a>, created by <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.groupBy.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame.groupBy" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame.groupBy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame.groupBy()</span></code></a>.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.PandasCogroupedOps.html#pyspark.sql.PandasCogroupedOps" title="pyspark.sql.PandasCogroupedOps"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PandasCogroupedOps</span></code></a>(gd1, gd2)</p></td>
<td><p>A logical grouping of two <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.GroupedData.html#pyspark.sql.GroupedData" title="pyspark.sql.GroupedData"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GroupedData</span></code></a>, created by <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.GroupedData.cogroup.html#pyspark.sql.GroupedData.cogroup" title="pyspark.sql.GroupedData.cogroup"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GroupedData.cogroup()</span></code></a>.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrameNaFunctions.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameNaFunctions" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrameNaFunctions"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrameNaFunctions</span></code></a>(df)</p></td>
<td><p>Functionality for working with missing data in <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a>.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrameStatFunctions.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameStatFunctions" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrameStatFunctions"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrameStatFunctions</span></code></a>(df)</p></td>
<td><p>Functionality for statistic functions with <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a>.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.Window.html#pyspark.sql.Window" title="pyspark.sql.Window"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Window</span></code></a></p></td>
<td><p>Utility functions for defining window in DataFrames.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrameReader</span></code></a>(spark)</p></td>
<td><p>Interface used to load a <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a> from external storage systems (e.g.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriter.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriter" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriter"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrameWriter</span></code></a>(df)</p></td>
<td><p>Interface used to write a <a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrame.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrame"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code></a> to external storage systems (e.g.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriterV2.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriterV2" title="pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriterV2"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrameWriterV2</span></code></a>(df, table)</p></td>
<td><p>Interface used to write a class:<cite>pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame</cite> to external storage using the v2 API.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.UDFRegistration.html#pyspark.sql.UDFRegistration" title="pyspark.sql.UDFRegistration"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UDFRegistration</span></code></a>(sparkSession)</p></td>
<td><p>Wrapper for user-defined function registration.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="api/pyspark.sql.udf.UserDefinedFunction.html#pyspark.sql.udf.UserDefinedFunction" title="pyspark.sql.udf.UserDefinedFunction"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">udf.UserDefinedFunction</span></code></a>(func[, returnType, …])</p></td>
<td><p>User defined function in Python</p></td>
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