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What do we mean by Partitions or slices?

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What do we mean by Partitions or slices?..

Answer / Mr Vinod Kumar

Partitions or slices in Apache Spark refer to logical divisions of data within a Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) or DataFrame. Each partition is processed independently, allowing for parallel processing across multiple nodes in a cluster.

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