deprecated
Koalas
Koalas is deprecated, replaced by Pandas API on Spark (deprecated May 2022).
Koalas Pandas API on Spark
Databricks' open-source Python library that put a pandas-compatible DataFrame API on top of Apache Spark, so pandas code could run distributed with little more than an import swap.
- It was announced on stage at Spark + AI Summit in April 2019 as a new open-source project that made PySpark's DataFrame API speak pandas - and yes, the name is an animal pun on pandas.
- It shipped preinstalled on Databricks Runtime 7.3 through 9.1, and from Databricks Runtime 10.0 onward every import is greeted by an informational message suggesting you use something else.
- Its formal deprecation is a bullet in the Databricks Runtime 10.5 release notes from May 2022, which also gave notice that it would stop being preinstalled from the very next runtime version.
- Category
- Data engineering
- Also known as
- databricks.koalas, Koalas DataFrame
- Verified
- 2026-09-11