Monday, August 05, 2013

Spark vs. Hadoop for Big Data

Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com:
"Spark, and according to those who built it and use it, it’s about 100 times faster than the mighty Hadoop — and could very well replace Hadoop as the stuff that fuels the modern web."
“The goal is to build a new generation of data analytics software, to be used across academia and industry”