# Discretized Streams (DStreams)

### Discretized Streams (DStreams)

Discretized Stream or DStream is the basic abstraction provided by Spark Streaming. It represents a continuous stream of data, either the input data stream received from source, or the processed data stream generated by transforming the input stream.

Internally, a DStream is represented by a continuous series of RDDs, which is Spark's abstraction of an immutable, distributed dataset (see Spark Programming Guide for more details).

Each RDD in a DStream contains data from a certain interval, as shown in the following figure.

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