Spark and Elasticsearch
Elastic Sparkle If you work in the Hadoop world and have not yet heard of Spark, drop everything and go check it out. It’s a really powerful, intuitive and fast map/reduce system (and some).
Where it beats Hadoop/Pig/Hive hands down is it’s not a massive stack of quirky DSLs built on top of layers of clunky Java abstractions - it’s a simple, pure Scala functional DSL with all the flexibility and succinctness of Scala.
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