Why Spark is the big data platform of the future
Apache Spark has created a lot of buzz recently. In fact, beyond the buzz, Apache Spark has seen phenomenal adoption and has been marked out as the successor to Hadoop MapReduce. Google Trends confirms the hockey stick like growth in interest in Apache Spark. All leading Hadoop vendors, including Cloudera, now include Apache Spark in their Hadoop distribution. So what exactly is Spark, and why has it generated such enthusiasm? Apache Spark is an open-source big data processing framework designed for speed and ease of use.