Does Spark provide the storage layer too

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I just started learning Spark and I've basic knowledge of Hadoop. Is there any storage layer provided by Spark as it is there in Hadoop i.e. HDFS.
Sep 3, 2018 in Apache Spark by Shubham
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No, it doesn’t provide storage layer but it lets you use many data sources. It provides the ability to read from almost every popular file systems such as HDFS, Cassandra, Hive, HBase, SQL servers.
answered Sep 3, 2018 by nitinrawat895
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