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You have thousands of Apache Spark jobs running in your on-premises Apache Hadoop cluster. You want to migrate the jobs to Google Cloud. You want to use managed services to run your jobs instead of ma
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Submitted by miguelv· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems
Question
You have thousands of Apache Spark jobs running in your on-premises Apache Hadoop cluster. You want to migrate the jobs to Google Cloud. You want to use managed services to run your jobs instead of maintaining a long-lived Hadoop cluster yourself. You have a tight timeline and want to keep code changes to a minimum. What should you do?
Options
- AMove your data to BigQuery. Convert your Spark scripts to a SQL-based processing approach.
- BRewrite your jobs in Apache Beam. Run your jobs in Dataflow.
- CCopy your data to Compute Engine disks. Manage and run your jobs directly on those instances.
- DMove your data to Cloud Storage. Run your jobs on Dataproc.
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#Spark migration#Dataproc#Managed services#Hadoop migration