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Yash V V.
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What do you like best about Spark?

I love the speed of data processing. Also the Immense Ecosystem of integration with APIs and the huge amount of optimization in memory we can achieve through it.

It is very easy to use and implement with versatile data processing approaches we can achieve through it and also the customer support with community help is great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

It needs a steep learning curve as non-tech persons or beginners may find it very complex.

When the data complexity is huge, it is hard to debug and find bugs in the processed big data.

It is not suitable for small data processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's solving a big problem by decreasing memory storage using optimization techniques, which thus solves the problem of buying big storage resources.

Also, it has built-in fail-safe and security features ensuring data safety and integrity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Spark - A micro framework for creating web applications in Java 8 with minimal effort

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Spark - A micro framework for creating web applications in Java 8 with minimal effort


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Gowtham Raj B.
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Gowtham Raj B.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Large scale data analytics on big data using Spark and Knime"
Integration with powerful scripting languages (Python, Scala and Java). Consume available Apache datastore files for developing ML models and quic...
Aman Y.
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Aman Y.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Experience of using spark"
The speed of spark The integration feature of spark with custom softwares, with other tools. The ease of use and user adaptability.
Richa A.
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Richa A.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Spark : faster way for batch processing"
I have used spark for data processing purpose the thing that I like the most is the speed , it process huge amount of data because of in memory com...
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Richa A.
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Senior Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Spark?

I have used spark for data processing purpose the thing that I like the most is the speed , it process huge amount of data because of in memory computation which is very better a compare to Hadoop map reduce Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

The thing that I don't like about spark is that infrastructure cost that is very high when it comes to run the data on a cluster environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It benefiting me by processing of huge amount of data faster also if I want to change anything I can simply use SQL which is a great support as developer for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aman Y.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Spark?

The speed of spark

The integration feature of spark with custom softwares, with other tools.

The ease of use and user adaptability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

No File system to manage.

Limited functions/ algos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

To form the overall framework to store data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gowtham Raj B.
GB
Senior Engineer | Data & Automation
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Spark?

Integration with powerful scripting languages (Python, Scala and Java).

Consume available Apache datastore files for developing ML models and quickly deploy to production.

Integration with Knime provided no-code development of ETL pipelines, and merging with Apache datastores allowed us to quickly educate the traditional talent (SQL and Excel-based) to build robust data insights.

Knime platform integration with Spark did not require any additional computing power as it performed all the processing on the Spark infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Out of the box, Spark has fewer algorithms for ML models, but we can extend with other programming languages which involves additional effort while implementing with Knime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Initially, Spark provided a quick and best way to consume the already available Apache datastores and build data science capabilities. When Knime came into the picture as a strategic tool, the rapid integration with Spark proved to extend the capabilities of Knime and an alternate way to consume Spark MLOps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav  M.
GM
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Spark?

1. I really like the concept of RDD in spark as they are immutable.

2. Spark provided lots of system udfs(out of the box) to play with.

3. We can easily debug a spark issue by checking lineage on spark UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

1. Sometimes, out-of-memory errors on spark become very frequent, and a SIGKILL command is invoked without any proper stack trace by spark. This way it becomes very difficult to debug a spark job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are running 1000's of spark jobs consuming 10 TB's of data daily and generating reports on top of raw data for finance, HR and other organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trilok P.
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DevOps Engineer - CloudOps
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What do you like best about Spark?

Spark makes processing very large data sets possible and also handles these data sets in a fairly quick manner.

Spark seems to be rapidly advancing software.

Spark is one of the trending software in the recent times.

It is a great computing engine for solving complex logics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Spark seems to be little slow on wide data.

Spark lacks in supporting its users a bit.

Sparks needs some advance ability to understand and structure the modeling of big data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a great computing engine which solves complex logics.

Gives us great set of libraries and api to solve day to day problems.

Fault tolerance.

Ease of use and Cluster management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SANDEEP S.
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Software Engineer in Test
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Spark?

-It incorporates with powerful scripting languages.

-Easy debugging via UI

-Data Processing is significantly faster than the conventional Hadoop Big Data System because of its in-memory calculations and several other optimizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

There may be Out of Memory mistakes as a result of In Memory calculations.

Query Execution time is somewhat high however it is expected, but can be optimized upto certain levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Spark is accelerating the processing of big data. I switched the use case then I realized, the process ran two times as quickly, enabling me to cut costs and operate its processes more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Spark?

In memory processing is mostly liked thing. Also directly we can use dataframes which makes it very developer friendly. Also streaming part I liked very much... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

There is nothing as such in my opinion which can be disliked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping us to do our data analysis on top of streaming data. Also helping in daily schedule batch processing. It increase our productivity and also business performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Spark?

Spark's in-memory computations makes it suparfast over traditional Map-Reduce jobs.

Also spark has capacity to not just read from hdfs but also from any storage. Spark streaming is best for streaming applications.

Dataframes are also the best part of spark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

There is nothing as such to dislike about spark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

For solving Big data analytics we are using spark which helps in fast processing the data to get insights of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal S.
KS
Data Analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Spark?

In memory computation and storage levels

GRAPHX and sparkmlib to execute ML jobs in distributed env

Support for multiple languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Performance issues for NON scala udfs

Not able to self optimise skewness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data pipelines for batch and real time data engineering solutions

With spark we are able to process big data as well as stream data in distributed way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal I.
KI
DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Spark?

Everything was very perfect. It was a great experience overall. All the things were properly in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Nothing as such. Everything was perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

All my tasks are made easier by using spark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.