The Spark SQL module was introduced to reduce those limitations, and while the addition of SQL capabilities expanded what Spark can do, the performance still came up short by “an order of magnitude” ...

Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. The multi-petabyte storage racks nearly overflowing with unstructured and semi-structured data that are being built by hyperscalers, ...

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Apache Spark rose to fame as an in-memory data processing framework frequently used with Hadoop, but it’s fast transforming into a nucleus for building other data-processing products. Newly released, ...