Explain foreach() operation in apache spark?



Explain foreach() operation in apache spark?..

Answer / Chanderpal Yadav

The `foreach()` operation in Apache Spark is a transformation action that applies a function to each element of a DataFrame or RDD (Resilient Distributed Dataset) and returns a new RDD as a result. The function passed to `foreach()` can perform arbitrary computations, including side effects like logging or writing to external storage. It's important to note that unlike transformations such as `map()`, the `foreach()` operation does not preserve the lineage of the DataFrame or RDD, which means it cannot be recomputed or cached.

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