Input/Output

Data Generator

range(start[, end, step, num_partitions])

Create a DataFrame with some range of numbers.

Spark Metastore Table

read_table(name[, index_col])	Read a Spark table and return a DataFrame.
DataFrame.to_table(name[, format, mode, ...])	Write the DataFrame into a Spark table.

Delta Lake

read_delta(path[, version, timestamp, index_col])	Read a Delta Lake table on some file system and return a DataFrame.
DataFrame.to_delta(path[, mode, ...])	Write the DataFrame out as a Delta Lake table.

Parquet

read_parquet(path[, columns, index_col, ...])	Load a parquet object from the file path, returning a DataFrame.
DataFrame.to_parquet(path[, mode, ...])	Write the DataFrame out as a Parquet file or directory.

ORC

read_orc(path[, columns, index_col])	Load an ORC object from the file path, returning a DataFrame.
DataFrame.to_orc(path[, mode, ...])	Write a DataFrame to the ORC format.

Generic Spark I/O

read_spark_io([path, format, schema, index_col])

Load a DataFrame from a Spark data source.

DataFrame.spark.to_spark_io([path, format, ...])

Write the DataFrame out to a Spark data source.

Flat File / CSV

read_csv(path[, sep, header, names, ...])	Read CSV (comma-separated) file into DataFrame or Series.
DataFrame.to_csv([path, sep, na_rep, ...])	Write object to a comma-separated values (csv) file.

Clipboard

read_clipboard([sep])	Read text from clipboard and pass to read_csv.
DataFrame.to_clipboard([excel, sep])	Copy object to the system clipboard.

Excel

read_excel(io[, sheet_name, header, names, ...])	Read an Excel file into a pandas-on-Spark DataFrame or Series.
DataFrame.to_excel(excel_writer[, ...])	Write object to an Excel sheet.

JSON

read_json(path[, lines, index_col])	Convert a JSON string to DataFrame.
DataFrame.to_json([path, compression, ...])	Convert the object to a JSON string.

HTML

read_html(io[, match, flavor, header, ...])	Read HTML tables into a list of DataFrame objects.
DataFrame.to_html([buf, columns, col_space, ...])	Render a DataFrame as an HTML table.

SQL

read_sql_table(table_name, con[, schema, ...])	Read SQL database table into a DataFrame.
read_sql_query(sql, con[, index_col])	Read SQL query into a DataFrame.
read_sql(sql, con[, index_col, columns])	Read SQL query or database table into a DataFrame.