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Apache Spark vs MapReduce: A Detailed Comparison

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Market Demands for Spark and MapReduce Apache Spark was originally developed in 2009 at UC Berkeley by the team who later founded Databricks. MapReduce is written in Java and the APIs are a bit complex to code for new programmers, so there is a steep learning curve involved. Since its launch Spark has seen rapid adoption and growth.

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