What is Spark?

Note: Please arrive as early as 5pm for pizza, beverages, and networking. The presentation will begin at 6pm.

Spark is one of the hottest Hadoop ecosystem technologies and it is predicted to replace MapReduce as the new processing framework for Hadoop. Brian Baillod, Cloudera Systems Engineer, will bring you up to speed on the latest Spark developments including:

• What is Spark?

• Why will Spark replace MapReduce?

• Customer success with Spark

• Benchmark code examples

• New Spark Features: RDD's and DataFrames

• SparkSQL

• Introduction to Kudu and how Spark will benefit Spark

• Security improvements via the new RecordService

Presenter: Brian Baillod, Cloudera

Brian has 25 years of data management experience and was one of the early employees at BI vendor Business Objects, and MPP database vendors Aster Data and Netezza. Brian has been with Cloudera since late 2013.