Big Data

What is Apache Spark?

Aditya Thakur / Big Data, Tools & Gadgets / March 26, 2022

Apache Spark is a distributed processing solution for big data workloads that is open-source. It combines in-memory caching and rapid query execution for quick analytic queries against any size of data. It includes development APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and R and allows code reuse across a variety of workloads, including batch processing, interactive queries, […]

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What is Big Data? Characteristics, Uses, and More

It’s hard to put a figure on the volume, velocity, and variety of data businesses have to deal with. Take, for instance, YouTube, which has to cope with a petabyte of new data daily. The same for Facebook is over 500 terabytes. When flying, a jet engine throws up 10 terabytes of data within half

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