<![endif] Toggle navigation /navbar-header Product Product Overview FAQ Spark Spark About Spark Certified on Spark Certified Spark Distribution Spark Training Spark Support About Us Blog Careers Sign up for beta /navbar-collapse /container navbarlogo /navbar-inner /navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top /container /navbar wrapper Modal × Close Fill out my online form . SIDEBAR All Posts Partners Events Press Releases All Posts Spark Spark Streaming Spark SQL MLlib Spark Summit CONTENT SINGLE POST TITLE DATE October 10, 2014 AUTHOR | by Reynold Xin CATEGORY Tags: Spark CONTENT Apache Spark has seen phenomenal adoption, being widely slated as the successor to MapReduce, and being deployed in clusters from a handful to thousands of nodes. While it was clear to everybody that Spark is more efficient t...