spark apis

The Dominant APIs of Spark: Datasets, DataFrames and RDDs

Reading Time: 4 minutes While working with Spark often we come across the three APIs: DataFrames, Datasets and RDDs.  In this blog I will discuss the three in terms of use case, performance and optimization.  It is essential to keep in mind that there is seamless transformation available between the three DataFrames, Datasets and RDDs. Implicitly the RDD forms the apex of both DataFrame and Datasets. The inception of Continue Reading