Global Temp Views vs Temp Views.

Updated May 5, 2026

Short answer

Temp views are session-scoped; Global temp views are application-scoped across multiple Spark sessions.

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Global temp views reside in the global_temp system database. They are useful in scenarios where multiple SparkSession instances are created within the same driver (e.g., in multi-tenant notebook environments).

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