PySpark: Java UDF Integration

#ICYMI: PySpark is the Spark API implementation using the Non-JVM language Python. Though developers utilize PySpark by implementing Python Code using Spark API’s (Python version of Spark API’s), internally, Spark uses data to be cached in JVM.

The Python Driver Program has SparkContext, which uses Py4J, a specialized library for Python Java interoperability to launch JVM and create a JavaSparkContext. https://goo.gl/NdUXoo #DataIntegration #ML