Although only experimental and probably off topic to the discussion, it's worth mentioning DuckDB also provides a Spark API implementation. https://duckdb.org/

Although only experimental and probably off topic to the discussion, it's worth mentioning DuckDB also provides a Spark API implementation. https://duckdb.org/docs/api/python/spark_api https://duckdb.org/docs/api/python/spark_api And while on the subject of syntax, duckdb also has function chaining https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/functions/overview.html#function-chaining-via-the-dot-operator https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/functions/overview.html#function...