Understanding the role of Py4J in Databricks
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MARCH 10, 2024
PySpark Under the Hood Apache Spark is written in Scala and Java. Both programming languages run in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Py4J enables Python programs running in a Python interpreter to dynamically access Java objects in a Java Virtual Machine. Py4J also enables Java programs to call back Python objects.
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