It's not an either/or with Phoenix and Spark - often companies use both as they're very complementary. See this [1] blog for an example. Spark is a processing engine while Phoenix+HBase is a database/store. You'll need to store your data somewhere. Thanks, James
[1] http://tech.marinsoftware.com/nosql/digital-advertising-storage-on-apache-hbase-and-apache-phoenix/?platform=hootsuite On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Cheyenne Forbes < cheyenne.osanu.for...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you. For a project as big as Facebook or Snapschat, would you > recommend using Spark or Phoenix for things such as message > retrieval/insert, user search, user feeds retrieval/insert, etc. and what > are the pros and cons? > > Regard, > Cheyenne > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 8:31 AM, John Leach <jlea...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jlea...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> Spark has a robust execution model with the following features that are >> not part of phoenix >> * Scalable >> * fault tolerance with lineage (Handles large intermediate >> results) >> * memory management for tasks >> * Resource Management (Fair Scheduling) >> * Additional SQL Features (Windowing ,etc.) >> * Machine Learning Libraries >> >> >> Regards, >> John >> >> > On Sep 11, 2016, at 2:45 AM, Cheyenne Forbes < >> cheyenne.osanu.for...@gmail.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cheyenne.osanu.for...@gmail.com');>> wrote: >> > >> > I realized there is a spark plugin for phoenix, any use cases? why >> would I use spark with phoenix instead of phoenix by itself? >> >> >
