CatBoost for Apache Spark installation

Requirements

• Linux or macOS with a CPU architecture x86_64 or aarch64/arm64. Windows support in progress.

• Apache Spark 3.2 - 4.1

• Scala 2.12 or 2.13 (corresponding to versions supported by the particular Spark version)

  Previous versions

  CatBoost version 1.2.8 supported Apache Spark versions 3.0 - 3.5.
  CatBoost versions before 1.2.8 supported Apache Spark versions 2.3 - 2.4 as well.
  CatBoost packages for Apache Spark versions 2.x also had Scala 2.11 compatible variants.

Choose installation method

It is generally recommended to use stable releases available as Maven artifacts from Maven central:

• For Maven projects
• For sbt projects
• For PySpark

You can also build from source using Maven.