Apache Spark 3.1 for Azure Synapse Analytics now generally available
Published date: September 09, 2021
You can now enhance your big data analytics in Azure Synapse with all the new features of the latest Spark release, available directly within your Azure Synapse workspace.
In addition to Spark library updates, this release also adds performance enhancements that are exclusive to Azure Synapse, such as limit pushdown, optimized sorts, and bloom filter enhancements.
For a complete list of the open source Apache Spark 3.1.2 features now available in Azure Synapse Analytics, please see the release notes.