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Comparing Performance of Big Data File Formats: A Practical Guide

Towards Data Science

Parquet vs ORC vs Avro vs Delta Lake Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash The big data world is full of various storage systems, heavily influenced by different file formats. These are key in nearly all data pipelines, allowing for efficient data storage and easier querying and information extraction.

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Implementing the Netflix Media Database

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A fundamental requirement for any lasting data system is that it should scale along with the growth of the business applications it wishes to serve. NMDB is built to be a highly scalable, multi-tenant, media metadata system that can serve a high volume of write/read throughput as well as support near real-time queries.

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Hands-On Introduction to Delta Lake with (py)Spark

Towards Data Science

Concepts, theory, and functionalities of this modern data storage framework Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Introduction I think it’s now perfectly clear to everybody the value data can have. To use a hyped example, models like ChatGPT could only be built on a huge mountain of data, produced and collected over years.

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100+ Big Data Interview Questions and Answers 2023

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There are three steps involved in the deployment of a big data model: Data Ingestion: This is the first step in deploying a big data model - Data ingestion, i.e., extracting data from multiple data sources. Data Variety Hadoop stores structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.

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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2023

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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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Top 100 Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers 2023

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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.

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