Features¶

The following are the features of Spark SQL that help place it in the top of the modern distributed SQL query processing engines:

• Adaptive Query Execution
• Bloom Filter Join
• Catalog Plugin API
• Columnar Execution
• Connector API
• Default Columns
• Direct Queries on Files
• Dynamic Partition Pruning
• File-Based Data Scanning
• Hints
• Metadata Columns
• Named Function Arguments
• Spark Connect
• Table-Valued Functions
• Time Travel
• Variable Substitution
• Vectorized Parquet Decoding (Reader)
• Whole-Stage Code Generation
• others (listed in the menu on the left)