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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide
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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

by Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Dataproc

Dataproc is GCP's big data-managed service for running Hadoop and Spark clusters. Hadoop and Spark are open source frameworks that handle data processing for big data applications in a distributed manner. Essentially, they provide massive storage for data, whilst also providing enormous processing power to handle concurrent processing tasks.

If we refer back to the End-to-end big data solution section of this chapter, Dataproc is also part of the processing stage. It can be compared to Dataflow; however, Dataproc requires us to provision servers, whereas Dataflow is serverless.

Exam tip: Dataproc should be chosen over Dataflow if we have an existing Hadoop or Spark Cluster. Also, skill sets of existing resources are needed. If we ...
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