Do I need to learn Hadoop to use Spark?

Question

Do I need to learn Hadoop to use Spark?

Answer 1

No, you don't have to learn Hadoop to learn Spark. You must note that Spark is an independent project and became popular after Hadoop 2.0.  Apache Spark can run on HDFS while Hadoop is essentially used to write MapReduce jobs.

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