Steve,

I wouldn't say Hadoop MR is a 2001 Toyota Celica :) In either case, I
updated the blog post to actually include CPU / disk / network measures.
You should see that in any measure that matters to this benchmark, the old
2100 node cluster is vastly superior. The data even fit in memory!



On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Steve Nunez <snu...@hortonworks.com> wrote:

> Nicholas,
>
> I never doubted the authenticity of the benchmark, nor the results. What I
> think could be better is an objective analysis of the results. That post
> neglected to point out the significant differences in hardware those two
> benchmarks were run on. It is bit like bragging you broke the world record
> at the Nürburgring in a 2014 1000hp LaFerrari and somehow forgetting to
> mention that the last record was held by a 2001 Toyota Celica.
>
> - Steve
>
>
> From:  Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com>
> Date:  Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 15:56
> To:  Steve Nunez <snu...@hortonworks.com>
> Cc:  Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com>, dev <dev@spark.apache.org>
> Subject:  Re: Surprising Spark SQL benchmark
>
> > Steve Nunez, I believe the information behind the links below should
> address
> > your concerns earlier about Databricks's submission to the Daytona Gray
> > benchmark.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Nicholas Chammas <
> nicholas.cham...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Nicholas Chammas
> >> <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I believe that benchmark has a pending certification on it. See
> >>> http://sortbenchmark.org under "Process".
> >> Regarding this comment, Reynold has just announced that this benchmark
> is now
> >> certified.
> >> * Announcement:
> >>
> http://databricks.com/blog/2014/11/05/spark-officially-sets-a-new-record-in-l
> >> arge-scale-sorting.html
> >> * Updated benchmark results page: http://sortbenchmark.org/
> >> * Paper detailing Spark cluster configuration for the benchmark:
> >> http://sortbenchmark.org/ApacheSpark2014.pdf
> >> Nick
> >>
> >> ​
> >
>
>
>
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