Cloudera customers will need to put pressure on them to support Java 8. They only officially supported Java 7 when Oracle stopped supporting Java 6.
dean On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com>wrote: > Java 8 support is a feature in Spark, but vendors need to decide for > themselves when they’d like support Java 8 commercially. You can still run > Spark on Java 7 or 6 without taking advantage of the new features (indeed > our builds are always against Java 6). > > Matei > > On May 6, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Ian O'Connell <i...@ianoconnell.com> wrote: > > I think the distinction there might be they never said they ran that code > under CDH5, just that spark supports it and spark runs under CDH5. Not that > you can use these features while running under CDH5. > > They could use mesos or the standalone scheduler to run them > > > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Kristoffer Sjögren <sto...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I just read an article [1] about Spark, CDH5 and Java 8 but did not get >> exactly how Spark can run Java 8 on a YARN cluster at runtime. Is Spark >> using a separate JVM that run on data nodes or is it reusing the YARN JVM >> runtime somehow, like hadoop1? >> >> CDH5 only supports Java 7 [2] as far as I know? >> >> Cheers, >> -Kristoffer >> >> >> [1] >> http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/04/making-apache-spark-easier-to-use-in-java-with-java-8/ >> [2] >> http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH5/latest/CDH5-Requirements-and-Supported-Versions/CDH5-Requirements-and-Supported-Versions.html >> >> >> >> >> > > -- Dean Wampler, Ph.D. Typesafe @deanwampler http://typesafe.com http://polyglotprogramming.com
