Nicholas, I never doubted the authenticity of the benchmark, nor the results. What I think could be better is an objective analysis of the results. That post neglected to point out the significant differences in hardware those two benchmarks were run on. It is bit like bragging you broke the world record at the Nürburgring in a 2014 1000hp LaFerrari and somehow forgetting to mention that the last record was held by a 2001 Toyota Celica.
- Steve From: Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 15:56 To: Steve Nunez <snu...@hortonworks.com> Cc: Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com>, dev <dev@spark.apache.org> Subject: Re: Surprising Spark SQL benchmark > Steve Nunez, I believe the information behind the links below should address > your concerns earlier about Databricks's submission to the Daytona Gray > benchmark. > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Nicholas Chammas >> <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I believe that benchmark has a pending certification on it. See >>> http://sortbenchmark.org under "Process". >> Regarding this comment, Reynold has just announced that this benchmark is now >> certified. >> * Announcement: >> http://databricks.com/blog/2014/11/05/spark-officially-sets-a-new-record-in-l >> arge-scale-sorting.html >> * Updated benchmark results page: http://sortbenchmark.org/ >> * Paper detailing Spark cluster configuration for the benchmark: >> http://sortbenchmark.org/ApacheSpark2014.pdf >> Nick >> >> ​ > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.