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Apache Spark Use Cases & Applications

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As per Apache, “ Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing ” Spark is a cluster computing framework, somewhat similar to MapReduce but has a lot more capabilities, features, speed and provides APIs for developers in many languages like Scala, Python, Java and R.

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What is Data Ingestion? Types, Frameworks, Tools, Use Cases

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Lambda architecture: A combination of both batch and real-time processing, the lambda architecture has three layers. The lambda architecture ensures completeness of data with minimal latency. Oftentimes, we need to compare current dataset with its old version. It is useful for Big Data ingestion.