Apache Spark Architecture, Design and Overview
Apache Spark is a fast, open source and general-purpose cluster computing system with an in-memory data processing engine. Apache Spark is written in Scala and it provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs. Apache Spark architecture is designed in such a way that you can use it for ETL (Spark SQL), analytics, machine learning (MLlib), graph processing or building streaming application (spark streaming). Spark is often called cluster computing engine or simply execution engine. Apache Spark is one of most…