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Databricks Exam Databricks-Certified-Associate-Developer-for-Apache-Spark-3.0 Topic 2 Question 78 Discussion
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Which of the following describes a shuffle?
A shuffle is a Spark operation that results from DataFrame.coalesce().
No. DataFrame.coalesce() does not result in a shuffle.
A shuffle is a process that allocates partitions to executors.
This is incorrect.
A shuffle is a process that is executed during a broadcast hash join.
No, broadcast hash joins avoid shuffles and yield performance benefits if at least one of the two tables is small in size (<= 10 MB by default). Broadcast hash joins can avoid shuffles because
instead of exchanging partitions between executors, they broadcast a small table to all executors that then perform the rest of the join operation locally.
A shuffle is a process that compares data across executors.
No, in a shuffle, data is compared across partitions, and not executors.
More info: Spark Repartition & Coalesce - Explained (https://bit.ly/32KF7zS)
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