Spark also provides many language choices, including Scala, Java, Python, and R. The 2015 Spark Survey that polled the Spark community shows particularly rapid growth in Python and R.

Debraj GuhaThakurta discusses ML and data analysis processes in Spark using examples written in Python and R.

Spark is an open source alternative to MapReduce designed to make it easier to build and run fast and sophisticated applications on Hadoop. Spark comes with a library of machine learning (ML) and ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project ...

Reactive programming company Typesafe today released a survey that confirms the high adoption rate of Apache Spark, an open source Big Data processing framework that improves traditional Hadoop-based ...