HyukjinKwon commented on pull request #32036:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/32036#issuecomment-812957328


   Yeah, actually I have thought a lot about it, and discussed with some other 
people offline.
   
   > since we already have pre-existing Pandas integration, having unrelated 
options referring to pandas could be confusing.
   
   This is a very good point .. I am thinking about using a different name such 
as pandas-on-Spark internally. So, for example, we could have a configuration 
such as `spark.pandas-on-spark.blahblah`.
   
   My current thought is to stick to use `pyspark.pandas` because:
   - I checked few references such as Modin (which is probably the most similar 
case with us) that uses `modin.pandas`.
   - Spark in general does not have its own naming in a component up to my best 
knowledge. As an example, [Shark](https://github.com/amplab/shark) became Spark 
SQL
   - Koalas might not be a good name in a long run either (as far as I know it 
was more like related to branding?) - it might be best to clarify in its 
component name in a way.
   
   However, I am open to change and to other names if many people think that 
`pyspark.koalas` or other alternatives are better.


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