# Spark

Apache Spark as a connector for federated SQL query against a Spark Cluster using [Spark Connect](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-connect-overview.html)

```yaml
datasets:
  - from: spark:spiceai.datasets.my_awesome_table
    name: my_table
    params:
      spark_remote: sc://my-spark-endpoint
```

{% hint style="info" %}
Unquoted identifiers are normalized to lowercase. To reference a table with mixed-case characters, wrap each case-sensitive part in double quotes: `spark:my_catalog."MySchema"."MyTable"`. See [Identifier Case Sensitivity](/building-blocks/data-connectors.md#identifier-case-sensitivity-and-quoting).
{% endhint %}

## Configuration

* `spark_remote`: A [spark remote](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-connect-overview.html#set-sparkremote-environment-variable) connection URI. Refer to [spark connect client connection string](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/connector/connect/docs/client-connection-string.md) for parameters in URI.

## Limitations

* Correlated scalar subqueries are only supported in filters, aggregations, projections, and UPDATE/MERGE/DELETE commands. [Spark Docs](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-error-conditions-unsupported-subquery-expression-category-error-class.html#unsupported_correlated_scalar_subquery)
* The Spark connector does not yet support streaming query results from Spark.


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