article thumbnail

Apache Spark vs MapReduce: A Detailed Comparison

Knowledge Hut

Market Demands for Spark and MapReduce Apache Spark was originally developed in 2009 at UC Berkeley by the team who later founded Databricks. Also, there is no interactive mode available in MapReduce Spark has APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R for all basic transformations and actions. It can also run on YARN or Mesos.

Scala 94