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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Spark Executor

A JVM process on a worker node that runs Spark tasks and stores cached data for an application.

Definition

Each executor has cores (parallel task slots) and memory. In Databricks, worker nodes run executors and the driver node runs the driver.

Exam tip

Parallelism = total executor cores; one task processes one partition.

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