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Is there any dependency of number of transformations on the running environment(photon/spark) ?

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Trifacta_Alumni
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

There is no "dependency" in terms of "running" Photon/Spark execution engines.

I guess your question is the impact of steps when run on both engines. There is a significant impact of n.o of steps based on the size of the Spark cluster and other Spark properties. Photon is an in-memory execution engine that run a chrome browser, so there is natural dependency on the available memory to a user's chrome and processor memory.

General rule of thumb is to keep the steps to minimum and efficient in a recipe. Best practice is to keep about 20 steps in a recipe.

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8 - Asteroid

That answers my question.

Thank you for your response.

 

Trifacta_Alumni
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

No problem