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More Ben Lorica with some observations coming out of the recent O’Reilly Strata Conference:
Here are a few observations based on conversations I had during the just concluded Strata Santa Clara conference.
Spark is attracting attention
I’ve written numerous times about components of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (Spark, Shark, MLbase). Two Spark-related sessions at Strata were packed (slides here and here) and I talked to many people who were itching to try the BDAS stack. Being able to combine batch, real-time, and interactive analytics in a framework that uses a simple programming model is very attractive. The release of version 0.7 adds a Python API to Spark’s native Scala interface and Java API.
I’m already in the tank for Spark, but Lorica’s got a couple of other interesting observations to add.