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What are broadcast variables in spark?

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What are broadcast variables in spark?..

Answer / Sukhdarshan Singh

Broadcast variables in Apache Spark are used to broadcast a large dataset across all worker nodes, so that every task can access the data efficiently. This is useful for scenarios where you have a large dataset that needs to be accessed frequently by multiple tasks.

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