What is the difference between spark streaming and spark structured streaming

Question

Hi,

I am using Spark streaming for real time processing. But there are one more concept called Spark structured streaming. Is it same or different?

Can somebody tell me?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar

Generally, Spark streaming  is used for real time processing. But it is an older or rather you can say original, RDD based  Spark structured streaming is the newer, highly optimized API for Spark. Users are advised to use the newer Spark structured streaming API for Spark.

Hope this will clear your doubt.

Thank You