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Apache Spark Quick Start Guide
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Apache Spark Quick Start Guide

by Shrey Mehrotra, Akash Grade
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
154 pages
4h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Project Tungsten

This section will discuss Project Tungsten and optimizations provided by this project. As a developer, you don't have to configure any property related to Tungsten as Spark provides this optimization by default, but it is worth giving an overview of Tungsten at this point in time. Project Tungsten is all about optimizations. In earlier days of distributed computing, the main bottlenecks in performance were disk I/O and network bandwidth. In recent years, hardware has made a significant improvement. For example, disks are now coming with new options such as solid state drives (SSD) and flash drives, which has increased disk performance. In a recent study, It was observed that most of the distributed applications do not perform ...

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