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Ease of use is one of the reasons Spark became popular. It provides a simpler programming model than Hadoop MapReduce for processing big data. However, the number of people who are fluent in the languages supported by the Spark core API is a lot smaller than the number of people who know the venerable SQL.
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Guller, M. (2015). Spark SQL. In: Big Data Analytics with Spark. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0964-6_7
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