Apache Spark Interview Questions and Answers
Question: What is the Broadcast variable in Spark and when is it used?Answer: A Broadcast variable is a read-only variable cached on each worker node. It is used to efficiently distribute large read-only data structures, such as lookup tables, to all tasks in a Spark job.Example:
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