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Spark 3.x Adaptive Query Execution reoptimizes shuffle partitioning, join strategy and skew handling at runtime using actual shuffle statistics instead of static estimates.
Static query planning in Apache Spark often fails because the optimizer makes decisions using stale statistics. Adaptive Query Execution (AQE) solves this by re-planning the query plan at runtime based on actual data statistics collected during shuffle operations.