it is possible to run multiple queries using a shared SparkContext (which holds the shared RDD). however this is not easily available in spark-shell i believe.
alternatively tachyon can be used to share (serialized) RDDs On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:41 AM, David Thomas <dt5434...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible for multiple users to access the same RDD, say, from their > respective spark-shells? >