What you call "sub-category" are packages pre-built to run on certain Hadoop environments. It really depends on where you want to run Spark. As far as I know, this is mainly about the included HDFS binding - so if you just want to play around with Spark, any of the packages should be fine. I wouldn't use source though, because you'd have to compile it yourself.
PS: Make sure to use "Reply to all". If you're not including the mailing list in the response, I'm the only one who will get your message. Regards, Jeff 2015-03-18 10:49 GMT+01:00 James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com>: > Any sub-category recommendations hadoop, MapR, CDH? > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:48 AM, James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Many thanks Jeff will give it a go. >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Jeffrey Jedele < >> jeffrey.jed...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Probably 1.3.0 - it has some improvements in the included Kafka receiver >>> for streaming. >>> >>> https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-3-0.html >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jeff >>> >>> 2015-03-18 10:38 GMT+01:00 James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Which build of Spark is best when using Kafka? >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> jk >>>> >>> >>> >> >
