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Streaming Data from the Universe with Apache Kafka

Confluent

For alert rates of millions per night, scientists need a more structured data format for automated analysis pipelines. After researching formats—and reading about Confluent’s suggestion of using Avro with Kafka —we settled on using Avro, an open source, JSON-based binary format, for serializing the data in the alert messages.

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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2023

ProjectPro

show(truncate=False) #Drop duplicates on selected columns dropDisDF = df.dropDuplicates(["department","salary"]) print("Distinct count of department salary : "+str(dropDisDF.count())) dropDisDF.show(truncate=False) } Get FREE Access to Data Analytics Example Codes for Data Cleaning, Data Munging, and Data Visualization Q6.

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100+ Big Data Interview Questions and Answers 2023

ProjectPro

Data Variety Hadoop stores structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. RDBMS stores structured data. Data storage Hadoop stores large data sets. RDBMS stores the average amount of data. Works with only structured data. It also discusses several kinds of data.

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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. What is Big Data?

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