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New Features in Spark 3

AQE (Adaptive Query Execution)

To enable AQE, you have to set spark.sql.adaptive.enabled to true (using --conf spark.sql.adaptive.enabled=true in spark-submit or using `spark.config("spark.sql.adaptive,enabled", "true") in Spark/PySpark code.)

Pandas UDFs

Pandas UDFs are user defined functions that are executed by Spark using Arrow to transfer data to Pandas to work with the data, which allows vectorized operations. A Pandas UDF is defined using pandas_udf