Answer / Sunil Kumar Savita

Both Spark and Hadoop MapReduce are used for big data processing. MapReduce is a batch processing system while Spark supports both batch and streaming. Spark offers faster computation due to in-memory computing and provides more high-level APIs compared to MapReduce.

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