In a recent paper, researchers introduced Flare, a back-end for Spark that improves the framework’s performance closer to that of the top SQL query engines for relational and machine learning ...

A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

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