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Optimizing Databricks Workloads
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Optimizing Databricks Workloads

by Anirudh Kala, Anshul Bhatnagar, Sarthak Sarbahi
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
230 pages
4h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Batch and Real-Time Processing in Databricks

Azure Databricks is capable of processing batch and real-time big data workloads using Apache Spark™. As data engineers, it is important to master these workloads for building real-world use cases. A batch load generally refers to an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) process where large chunks of data get copied from a source to a sink. This type of workload can take time to process, ranging from minutes to hours, whereas real-time processing works with a much smaller latency (that is, seconds or even milliseconds).

When it comes to Databricks, there are different ways to process batch and real-time workloads. In this chapter, we will discuss the approaches ...

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