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Apache Sparkspark.apache.orgApache Spark is an open-source, unified engine for large-scale data analytics that runs on single-node machines or clusters, supporting batch and real-time streaming in Python, SQL, Scala, Java, or R. It enables fast distributed SQL analytics, scalable data science, and machine learning, with components like Spark SQL and MLlib, spanning structured and unstructured data. It has a large ecosystem and community, with thousands of contributors and widespread adoption (including many Fortune 500 companies), and offers integrations to scale other frameworks.
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Excerpts where Apache Spark appeared in the AI's answer
Apache Spark (PySpark / Spark SQL): Built for distributed data processing
Apache Spark DataFrames — Useful when your data is too large for a single machine.
