TY - JOUR AU - Bolishetti Ananya Varma AU - Vanaparthi Kiranmai AU - Bhaskar K PY - 2026 DA - 2026/06/15 TI - An Efficient Recommendation System Using Collaborative Filtering and Big Data Analytics JO - Global Journal of Engineering Innovations and Interdisciplinary Research VL - 6 IS - 4 AB - The rapid growth of e-commerce platforms, online streaming services, social media applications, and digital marketplaces has resulted in an enormous increase in user-generated data and digital content. As users interact with millions of products, movies, books, music tracks, and online services, identifying personalized content has become increasingly challenging. Recommendation systems play a crucial role in filtering relevant information and improving user experience by suggesting items that match individual preferences. Traditional recommendation techniques often experience limitations when processing massive datasets due to scalability issues, sparse user ratings, and increasing computational complexity. Big Data Analytics has emerged as an effective solution by enabling efficient processing of large-scale user interactions while improving recommendation quality and computational efficiency. This paper proposes an efficient recommendation system that integrates Collaborative Filtering with Big Data Analytics to generate personalized recommendations for large-scale applications. The proposed framework utilizes Apache Spark for distributed data processing, collaborative filtering algorithms for preference prediction, and big data analytics techniques for scalable recommendation generation. User interactions, historical ratings, demographic information, and behavioral patterns are processed to identify similarities among users and items. The framework employs distributed computation to reduce processing time while maintaining high recommendation accuracy. Experimental evaluation was conducted using large-scale recommendation datasets containing millions of user-item interactions collected from e-commerce and multimedia platforms. Comparative analysis demonstrates that the proposed framework significantly improves recommendation accuracy, scalability, throughput, and execution efficiency compared with conventional recommendation approaches. The proposed system provides an intelligent and scalable solution suitable for modern big data recommendation environments. SN - 3066-1226 UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.33425/3066-1226.1309 DO - 10.33425/3066-1226.1309