Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Kevin Markey
your job easier on jvm and it is more consise than > > java. Take it as an opportunity and start learning scala ;). > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: http://apache-sp

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Mark Hamstra
s close to trivial - > if I only new Scala. Once I learn Scala, I would say the first thing I plan > on doing is writing my own OracleRDD with my own flavor of Jdbc code. Why > would this not be advisable? > > > > Subject: Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea? > > From: matei.

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Matei Zaharia
override them which the JdbcRDD does and it looks close to trivial - > if I only new Scala. Once I learn Scala, I would say the first thing I plan > on doing is writing my own OracleRDD with my own flavor of Jdbc code. Why > would this not be advisable? > > > > Subject: Re

RE: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Ron Ayoub
Jdbc code. Why would this not be advisable? > Subject: Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea? > From: matei.zaha...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:56:39 -0700 > CC: u...@spark.incubator.apache.org > To: isasmani@gmail.com > > A pretty large fraction of users use Java, b

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Matei Zaharia
make your job easier on jvm and it is more consise than > java. Take it as an opportunity and start learning scala ;). > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Is-Spark-in-Java-a-bad-idea-tp17534p17538.html >

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread critikaled
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Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Ron Ayoub
I haven't learned Scala yet so as you might imagine I'm having challenges working with Spark from the Java API. For one thing, it seems very limited in comparison to Scala. I ran into a problem really quick. I need to hydrate an RDD from JDBC/Oracle and so I wanted to use the JdbcRDD. But that i