Big Data Processing with Apache Spark

This is the first article of the "Big Data Processing with Apache Spark” series. In this first installment of Apache Spark article series, we'll look at what Spark is, how it compares with a typical MapReduce solution and how it provides a complete suite of tools for big data processing. Please see also: Part 2: Spark SQL, Part 3: Spark Streaming, Part 4: Spark Machine Learning, Part 5 Spark ML Data Pipelines, Part 6 Graph Data Analytics with Spark GraphX.