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Comparing Apache Spark™ and Databricks

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Apache Spark capabilities provide speed, ease of use and breadth of use benefits and include APIs supporting a range of use cases:

  • Data integration and ETL
  • Interactive analytics
  • Machine learning and advanced analytics
  • Real-time data processing

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Databricks builds on top of Spark and adds:

  • Highly reliable and performant data pipelines
  • Productive data science at scale

databricks workspace collaborative notebooks and production jobs

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