Spark is a wonderful project, I blogged about it just the other day: http://subprotocol.com/2013/06/17/spark-darling-of-big-data.html http://subprotocol.com/201

Spark is a wonderful project, I blogged about it just the other day: http://subprotocol.com/2013/06/17/spark-darling-of-big-data.html http://subprotocol.com/2013/06/17/spark-darling-of-big-data.... Spark make doing MR easy. I've used other frameworks on hadoop MR, but nothing compares with the ease with which you can express computations using it. And it does both batch and real-time/streaming. It is a very well thought-out project.