What is GCP Dataproc?

Google Cloud Dataproc is a managed Spark and Hadoop service that lets you take advantage of open source data tools for batch processing, querying, streaming, and machine learning. Dataproc automates cluster creation, management, scaling, and updates, integrating with other Google Cloud services like Cloud Storage and BigQuery. It is commonly used for data warehousing, ETL (extract, transform, load) pipelines, real-time analytics, and machine learning model training.