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jaxjug July Meeting - Introduction to Spark
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Time: July 8, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Availity
Street: 10752 Deerwood Park Blvd S, Ste 110
City/Town: Jacksonville FL 32256
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q…
Phone: Eyalwir@ yahoo.com
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: Eyal Wir
Latest Activity: Jul 7, 2015
Event Description
Introduction to Spark
Presented by Carol McDonald, MapR Technologies
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. In contrast to Hadoop's two-stage disk-based MapReduce paradigm, Spark's in-memory primitives provide performance up to 100 times faster for certain applications.
The Spark software stack includes a core data-proccessing engine, an interface for interactive querying, Sparkstreaming for streaming data analysis, and growing libraries for machine-learning and graph analysis. Spark is quickly establishing itself as a leading environment for doing fast, iterative in-memory and streaming analysis.
This talk will give an introduction the Spark stack, explain how Spark has lighting fast results, and how it complements Apache Hadoop.
Please RSVP!
http://www.meetup.com/Jacksonville-JAVA-User-Group-JaxJUG/events/223679551/
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