[subprotocol]

Spark is a wonderful project, I blogged about it just the other day: http://subprotocol.com/2013/06/17/spark-darling-of-big-data....

Spark make doing MR easy. I've used other frameworks on hadoop MR, but nothing compares with the ease with which you can express computations using it. And it does both batch and real-time/streaming. It is a very well thought-out project.

[pkolaczk]

Not only it is easy to use, but the source code is a real pleasure to read, contrary to Hadoop's mess.