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

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

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

2014-10-28 Thread Matei Zaharia
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 Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive

RE: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Ron Ayoub
of 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, but a few features are still

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Matei Zaharia
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: Is Spark in Java a bad idea? From: matei.zaha...@gmail.com

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Mark Hamstra
- 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.zaha...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:56:39 -0700

Re: Is Spark in Java a bad idea?

2014-10-28 Thread Kevin Markey
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 Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list