# Why Storage Matters for Spark Jobs: A TPC-DS Performance Analysis

Storage matters for Spark jobs because ingest and prep add heavy overhead, especially with small files. TPC-DS benchmarks compare NeuralMesh latency to Amazon S3 as Parquet chunk size shrinks.

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