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Traditional Spark Engine vs
Turbo Rearchitected Spark Engine

We put Yeedu’s rearchitected Spark Turbo Engine head-to-head against traditional Spark used inleading data platforms. The performance gap isn’t close.​
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System Descriptions​

In order to put the rearchitected spark Turbo engine at a disadvantage, and push it to itsextremes, we used some of the most efficient data platforms that uses native Spark engines.​

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Yeedu Turbo Engine​
Yeedu's Turbo Engine is a rearchitected Spark executionengine engineered to improve Spark performance, maximizespeed, and cost efficiency. It is designed to be used withoutchanging your code or migrating data and to eliminatecommon Spark performance issues.​
Key Capabilities​
  • Zero Code Refactoring: No Spark pipeline changesrequired​
  • Query Plan Rewriting: Reorders execution DAGs forminimal latency​
  • SIMD-Based Vector Execution: Parallel data path processing for higher CPU throughput​
  • Columnar Data Access: Bypasses row-level overhead byoperating on typed column vectors​
  • Cache-Aware Execution: Optimized use of CPU L1/L2/L3 caches to reduce I/O wait cycles​
  • Smart Scheduling: Dynamic allocation of CPU threadsacross concurrent workloads​
  • ​​Multitenant Execution Engine: Runs high-volume paralleljobs with stable latency under load
Traditional Spark Engines
Most data platforms still rely on traditional general-purpose Spark engines the default open-source Sparkruntime which is powerful but not designed tooptimize for modern cloud hardware or extremeconcurrency.​
Typical Characteristics
  • Row-Oriented Processing: Operates record-by-record, increasing memory pressure and I/O​
  • Minimal SIMD Utilization: Misses modern CPU-levelparallelism​
  • Garbage Collection Overhead: JVM-managedmemory creates unpredictable latency under load​
  • Manual Performance Tuning: Requires developerintervention to optimize stage performance​
  • Poor Idle-Time Recovery: CPUs remainunderutilized during I/O-bound stages​
  • Retry Amplification at Scale: Higher failure ratesunder high concurrency and data skew​
  • Cost Drift: Prolonged job execution translates tounpredictable billing across compute layers​
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Key Observations Under Load

The stress test revealed clear, repeatable differences between Yeedu’s Turbo Engine and traditional Spark runtimes across the benchmarks. ​

01

Execution Time

Configure connection Turbo Engine delivered 4x to 10x faster runtimes depending on query type.​details for your chosen metastore type

02

Concurrency Stability

Maintained low latency under 50+ concurrent jobs traditional engines experienced retries and degraded throughput.​

03

Cost Efficiency

Yeedu’s resource utilization translated to 60–80% lower compute costs, even without tuning.

04

Operational Simplicity

With Yeedu, setup was frictionless. No configuration branching, no dependency management, no data movement.​

Rearchitected Vs Traditional Spark Stress Test

The commonly used dataset, the New York City Yellow Cabs, was used for the stress test to standardize the dataset and results.

Step 1: Parking the Data​
Step 2: Evaluating Startup Overhead​
Step 3: Running the Queries​
Step 4: Analyzing the Results​

Ready to benchmark Turbo Engine on your real workloads?

Yeedu’s turbo engine with built-in Smart Scheduling maximizes both CPU-bound and I/O-bound performance. Bring your pipelines and quantify the speedups firsthand.