Understanding What Are the Spark Flavors in Big Data
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Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine that is 10 to 100 times faster than MapReduce for large-scale data processing. Its modular architecture is composed of several powerful, integrated libraries, which are often referred to as 'Spark flavors,' each designed to handle specific data processing workloads. These components allow developers to use a single framework for everything from data warehousing to machine learning.
