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Monte Carlo + Databricks Doubles Mutual Customer Count—and We’re Just Getting Started

Monte Carlo

After launching our partnership with Databricks last year, Monte Carlo has aggressively expanded our native Databricks and Apache Spark™ integrations to extend data observability into the Delta Lake and Unity Catalog, and in the process, drive even more value for Databricks customers.

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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2023

ProjectPro

The StructType and StructField classes in PySpark are used to define the schema to the DataFrame and create complex columns such as nested struct, array, and map columns. StructType is a collection of StructField objects that determines column name, column data type, field nullability, and metadata. appName('ProjectPro').getOrCreate()

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Optimizing Kafka Streams Applications

Confluent

For this specific case, when the StreamBuilder#build() method is called, Streams will “push up” the repartitioning phase of the logical plan based on the captured metadata before compiling it to the processor topology. With the topology optimization framework added to the Streams DSL layer in Kafka 2.1,

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100+ Big Data Interview Questions and Answers 2023

ProjectPro

Why is HDFS only suitable for large data sets and not the correct tool for many small files? NameNode is often given a large space to contain metadata for large-scale files. The metadata should come from a single file for optimal space use and economic benefit. And storing these metadata in RAM will become problematic.

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Top 100 Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers 2023

ProjectPro

Hadoop vs RDBMS Criteria Hadoop RDBMS Datatypes Processes semi-structured and unstructured data. Processes structured data. Schema Schema on Read Schema on Write Best Fit for Applications Data discovery and Massive Storage/Processing of Unstructured data. are all examples of unstructured data.

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