Re: mission statement : unified

2020-10-25 Thread Stephen Boesch
While the core of the Spark is and has been quite solid and a go-to infrastructure, the *streaming *part of the story was still quite weak at least through mid last year. I went into depth on both structured and the older DStream. The structured in particular was difficult to use: both in terms o

Re: mission statement : unified

2020-10-25 Thread Khalid Mammadov
Correct. Also as explained in the book LearningSpark2.0 by Databiricks: Unified Analytics While the notion of unification is not unique to Spark, it is a core component of its design philosophy and evolution. In November 2016, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recognized Apache Spark

Re: mission statement : unified

2020-10-18 Thread Sonal Goyal
My thought is that Spark supports analytics for structured and unstructured data, batch as well as real time. This was pretty revolutionary when Spark first came out. That's where the unified term came from I think. Even after all these years, Spark remains the trusted framework for enterprise anal

Re: mission statement : unified

2020-10-18 Thread Gourav Sengupta
Hi, I think that it is just a marketing statement. But with SPARK 3.x, now that you are seeing that SPARK is no more than just another distributed data processing engine, they are trying to join data pre-processing into ML pipelines directly. I may call that unified. But you get the same with sev

mission statement : unified

2020-10-18 Thread Hulio andres
  Apache Spark's  mission statement is  Apache Spark™ is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.    To what is the word "unified" inferring ?             - To unsubscribe e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark