问题
I have installed PySpark standalone/locally (on Windows) using
pip install pyspark
I was a bit surprised I can already run pyspark in command line or use it in Jupyter Notebooks and that it does not need a proper Spark installation (e.g. I did not have to do most of the steps in this tutorial https://medium.com/@GalarnykMichael/install-spark-on-windows-pyspark-4498a5d8d66c ).
Most of the tutorials that I run into say one needs to "install Spark before installing PySpark". That would agree with my view of PySpark being basically a wrapper over Spark. But maybe I am wrong here - can someone explain:
- what is the exact connection between these two technologies?
- why is installing PySpark enough to make it run? Does it actually install Spark under the hood? If yes, where?
- if you install only PySpark, is there something you miss (e.g. I cannot find the
sbinfolder which contains e.g. script to start history server)
回答1:
As of v2.2, executing pip install pyspark will install Spark.
If you're going to use Pyspark it's clearly the simplest way to get started.
On my system Spark is installed inside my virtual environment (miniconda) at lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyspark/jars
回答2:
PySpark installed by pip is a subfolder of full Spark. you can find most of PySpark python file in spark-3.0.0-bin-hadoop3.2/python/pyspark. so if you'd like to use java or scala interface, and deploy distribute system with hadoop, you must download full Spark from Apache Spark and install it.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51728177/can-pyspark-work-without-spark