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Spark

[spɑːk]
Data Science
Last updated: December 9, 2024

Definition

A fast and general-purpose cluster computing system for big data processing.

Detailed Explanation

Apache Spark is an open-source analytics engine for large-scale data processing. It provides high-level APIs in multiple languages and supports various workloads including batch processing streaming machine learning and graph processing.

Use Cases

1. Real-time analytics 2. Machine learning pipelines 3. Stream processing 4. Interactive queries

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