Summary

In this chapter, we discussed various transformation and actions provided by the Spark RDD API. We also discussed various real-life problem statements and solved them by using Spark transformation and actions. At the end, we also discussed the persistence/caching provided by Spark for optimizing the performance.

In the next chapter, we will discuss interactive analytics using Spark SQL.

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