Spark, the ultra-fast, general purpose big data computing platform provides some very flexible options for processing and accessing data. In our last meetup we covered PySpark and the Schema RDD. In this coming session we'll review and expand on this, with an in-depth exploration of Spark SQL.

Joe Caserta

Overview of Spark in the Hadoop ecosystem

Elliott Cordo

Deep dive into Spark SQL with step by steps on how to implement and use it.