It claims to be upto 100 times more faster compared to Hadoop MapReduce processing methods. Spark is an execution engine which is gaining popularity due to its ability to perform in memory parallel processing. Net background and new to Java way of working might face similar difficulties tat I faced over a day to get Spark up and running. I got back to bit of programming after a long gap and it was quite evident that I struggledd a bit in configuring the system.
This post is about my experice of setting up Spark as a standalone instance on Windows 10 64 bit machine. Hopefully the next ones will be much more frequent. Its been almost 2 years since I wrote a blog post.