Why choose spark?
The advantages of working with Apache Spark
Whether you’re working on ETL & Data Engineering jobs, machine learning & AI applications, doing exploratory data analysis (EDA), or any combination of the three - Spark is right for you.
Used by data engineers and data scientists alike in thousands of organizations worldwide, Spark is the industry standard analytics engine for big data processing and machine learning. Spark enables you to process data at lightning speed for both batch and streaming workloads.
Spark can run on Kubernetes, YARN, or standalone - and it works with a wide range of data inputs and outputs.
Spark makes it easy to start working with distributed computing systems.
Through its core API support for multiple languages, native libraries that enable easy streaming, machine learning, graph computing, and SQL - the Spark ecosystem offers some of the most extensive capabilities and features of any technology out there.
Other third-party contributions also make using Spark much easier and versatile.
Whether you’re working on ETL & Data Engineering jobs, machine learning & AI applications, doing exploratory data analysis (EDA), or any combination of the three - Spark is right for you.
Spark uses in-memory processing and optimizes query executions for efficient parallelism, hence gaining an edge over other big data tools. Spark is up to 100x faster than Hadoop.
Spark developers enjoy the flexibility of a programming language (like Python or Scala), contrary to pure SQL frameworks. This lets them express their complex business logics and insert custom code, even as the code base grows.
Spark is packaged with higher-level libraries which enables data engineering, machine learning, streaming, and graph processing use cases. Spark also comes with connectors to efficiently read from and write to most data storage systems.
Spark is one of the most cost effective solution for big data processing. By separating the compute infrastructure from the cloud storage (according to the data lake architecture), Spark can scale its ressources automatically based on the load.
Spark has APIs in Python, Scala, R, SQL and Java. The open-source koalas library also makes it easy to convert pure python workloads (using the pandas library) into Spark. This makes it easy for developers from most backgrounds to easily adopt Apache Spark.
In a few lines of code, data scientists and engineers can build complex applications and let Spark handle their scale. Platforms like Data Mechanics automate the management and maintenance of the infrastructure so that developers can focus on their application code.
At Data Mechanics, we’re deployed on a Kubernetes cluster in your cloud account, we manage this cluster for you and optimize the Spark performance so you only worry about your data while we handle the mechanics!
Using the Data Mechanics Platform, your sensitive data never leaves your account. We also support private clusters (behind a VPN, no inbound connections) and Google Auth.
Our competitors charge you for server uptime, regardless of whether you're using these servers to run Spark applications or not.
We only charge you for the time you spend using Spark compute resources. We also make sure to optimize your Spark configurations and tune your infrastructure, then aggressively scale down your cluster once it goes idle.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Data + AI Summit 2020 Highlights: What’s new for the Apache Spark community? In this article we’ll go over the highlights of the conference, focusing on the new developments which were recently added to Apache Spark or are coming up in the coming months: Spark on Kubernetes, Koalas, Project Zen.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
How Is Data Mechanics different than running Spark on Kubernetes open-source? In this article, we explain how our platform extends and improves on Spark on Kubernetes to make it easy-to-use, flexible, and cost-effective. We'll go over our intuitive user interfaces, dynamic optimizations, and custom integrations
Monday, November 2, 2020
Apache Spark is the leading technology for data engineering at scale. But making Spark easy-to-use, stable, and cost-efficient remains challenging. In this article, the AI & Data consulting firm Quantmetry and Data Mechanics team up to give you their best practices to ensure you're successful with Spark in 2021.