PyRank
apache

pyspark

Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyspark has 49M monthly downloads and 44K GitHub stars. Version 4.0.3 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of py4j. It is used by 626 tracked packages, including delta-spark, soda-core-spark-df and semantic-link-sempy.

GitHub topics include scala, r and java.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (apache/spark) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
1.6M
Week
11.2M
Month
49.0M
Stars
43.6K
Forks
29.3K
Issues
50
Version
4.0.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
94
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
48,957,577
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
48,957,577
Stars
43,559
Stars per 1k downloads
0.89
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,605,531
Month daily avg
1,631,919
Momentum
-1.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
25 days ago
Total releases
69
Releases/year
7.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
2,339
Monthly downloads
48,957,577
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
80
 
Issue Burden
1.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.3M
Windows 1.5K
macOS 711

Python Versions

3.11
26.4% 322.9K
3.12
26.2% 320.6K
3.10
26.1% 319.5K
3.9
15.9% 194.0K
3.7
5.4% 65.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
834.8K
2. IE IE
114.2K
3. NL NL
91.7K
4. SG SG
54.9K
5. DE DE
28.4K
6. BR BR
28.2K
7. GB GB
22.8K
8. IN IN
21.2K
9. AU AU
14.8K
10. CA CA
12.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
First Release
July 12, 2017
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
4.0.3
Total Releases
69
Contributors
2,339
Open PRs
375
Archived
No
Author
Spark Developers
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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