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Resolved! What is the difference between a Transformation and Action in Spark?

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Spark's execution engine is designed to be Lazy. In effect, you're first up build up your analytics/data processing request through a series of Transformations which are then executed by an ActionTransformations are kind of operations which will tran...

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