Re: Do I need to know Scala to take full advantage of spark?

2014-07-30 Thread Matei Zaharia
Java is very close to Scala across the board, the only thing missing in it right now is GraphX (which is still alpha). Python is missing GraphX, streaming and a few of the ML algorithms, though most of them are there. So it should be fine to start with  any of them. See  http://spark.apache.org/

Do I need to know Scala to take full advantage of spark?

2014-07-30 Thread Majid Azimi
Hi guys I'm very new in spark land comming from old school MapReduce world. I have no idea about scala. Does Java/Python API can compete with native Scala API? Is Spark heavily scala centric and binding for other languages are only for starting up and testing and serious work in spark will re