Radvision World Consultancy Senior Associate Interview Questions and Answers

Coalesce reduces the number of partitions in a DataFrame, while repartition increases the number of partitions.

• Coalesce is used to reduce the number of partitions in a DataFrame without shuffling the data

• Repartition is used to increase the number of partitions in a DataFrame and can involve shuffling the data

• Coalesce is more efficient than repartition when reducing partitions as it avoids shuffling