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		ordx on Oct 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition Interesting, sounds like you have a very specific usecase. I'm mostly dealing with huge datasets and Spark is a lifesaver.

mlthoughts2018 on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

My use case is just general computing on huge datasets for ML and statistics.

Spark only serves a few special use cases that usually don’t justify its cost, similar to map reduce on Hadoop.

Databricks though (distinct from Spark) serves no use cases.

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