Apache Spark Streaming

Apache Spark Streaming is an extension of the core Apache Spark API that enables scalable, high-throughput, fault-tolerant stream processing of live data streams. It allows data to be ingested from many sources like Kafka, Flume, and Kinesis, and processed using complex algorithms expressed with high-level functions like map, reduce, join, and window.

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Last analyzed: April 11, 2026