What is tungsten engine in spark?



What is tungsten engine in spark?..

Answer / Vinita Gupta

"Tungsten Engine" (also known as Project Tungsten) is an optimization framework in Apache Spark that aims to improve the performance of both batch and streaming workloads. It includes optimizations like in-memory computing, code generation, and efficient memory management. Tungsten improves the efficiency of data serialization, deserialization, and SQL query execution.

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