What is a "Spark Driver"?



What is a "Spark Driver"?..

Answer / Ram Avtar Sharma

A Spark Driver is the main program where you create a SparkContext and submit jobs to the Spark cluster. It acts as an interface between the user code and the Spark execution engine.

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