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Spark Structured Streaming - Introduction (1/3)

A brief introduction to Spark Structured Streaming

Pavan Kulkarni

10 minute read

Structured Streaming is a new of looking at realtime streaming. With abstraction on DataFrame and DataSets, structured streaming provides alternative for the well known Spark Streaming. Structured Streaming is built on top of Spark SQL Engine. Some of the main features of Structured Streaming are -