Spark on Kubernetes
Background For data processing tasks, there are different ways you can go about it: using SQL to leverage a database engine to perform data transformation dataframe-based frameworks such as pandas, ray, dask, polars big data processing frameworks such as spark Check out this article for more info on polars vs spark benchmark. The problem At larger data scale, other solutions (except spark) can work, but with a lot of vertical scaling, and this can get very expensive. For a comparison, our team had to scale a database to 4/16 GB and it still took the whole night, whereas spark on a single node can process the data in 2 minutes flat. ...