Initially open-sourced in 2012 and followed by its first stable release two years later, Apache Spark quickly became a prominent player in the big data space. Since then, its adoption by big data companies has been on the rise at an eye-catching rate.
In-memory processing
Undoubtedly a key feature of Spark, in-memory processing, is what makes the technology deliver the speed that dwarfs performance of conventional big data processing.
