Apache Spark¶

Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. It serves as a core framework within the big data ecosystem, providing a comprehensive platform for data storage and computation.^[600-developer-big-data-big-data.md]

Spark is designed to handle various data processing workloads through its integrated components. It supports standard data computation via core Spark code and provides modules for SQL queries (Spark SQL) and real-time Stream processing (Spark Streaming).^[600-developer-big-data-big-data.md]

Implementation and Language¶

The Apache Spark framework is implemented in the Scala programming language.^[600-developer-big-data-big-data.md]

Related Concepts¶

• [[Big Data]]
• [[Hadoop]]
• [[HDFS]]

Sources¶

• 600-developer-big-data-big-data.md