What exactly is apache spark?



What exactly is apache spark?..

Answer / Swati Chandra

Apache Spark is a fast and general-purpose cluster-computing system. It provides an interface for programming entire clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. It can be used for various big data processing tasks such as batch processing, streaming, machine learning, and graph processing.

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