Spark's website provides pretty good documentation <http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html> to get started. Basically, you just need to download and unpack Spark archive.
To use it from Julia, you can try either Spock.jl, or Sparta.jl (Spark.jl isn't a wrapper, but instead an attempt to re-implement Spark in pure Julia). Spock.jl was the first package to connect to Apache Spark and currently provides some basic functionality. However, it lacks some important architectural features and I couldn't get in touch with its author, so I started Sparta.jl in the same manner as PySpark and SparkR (now official clients for Python and R). You can use it for some basic stuff like reading text files from HDFS and doing map-reduce on them, but large part of API is still missing. Also, Julia infrastructure is still young, so there are some annoying issues <https://github.com/aviks/JavaCall.jl/issues/20> as well as hard-to-resolve limitations <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/B39vRfhKFxM>. All in all, it's in active development stage, so use it on your own risk. On Friday, September 4, 2015 at 5:27:57 AM UTC+3, Deb Midya wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks in advance. > > I am using Julia 0.3.7 on Windows 8. > > I am exploring the possibility of using Spark in Julia. > > If yes, how can I install Spark on Windows and how to use it from Julia? > > Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given. > > Regards, > > Deb > >
