Deep dive: How Lightning Engine delivers 4.9x faster Apache Spark performance

From foundational ETL and analytics to the frontier of generative AI, Apache Spark serves as the architectural backbone for global data processing. However, as data volumes scale, the trade-off between performance and infrastructure costs can be a limiting factor for growth. In the agentic era, where autonomous agents can trigger thousands of concurrent, multi-hop queries, this performance bottleneck directly dictates your unit economics.