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Mesosphere's new big data solution: Add Spark, hold the Hadoop

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Mention big-data tools like Spark and Kafka to most enterprise users, and the other big-data tool that comes to mind along with them is Hadoop. But does it need to?

 

Mesosphere, corporate backers of the Apache Mesos cluster-management project, are ginning up a big-data stack that eschews Hadoop, but embraces Spark (and Kafka, and Cassandra, and the Akka event framework) for real-time processing.

 

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Mesosphere Infinity, as the new product is called, is "a turnkey, full-stack offering optimized for big data and IoT," and its main aim is to provide an easily erected stack for businesses for real-time data work. But it also stands as a recent example of how many of the technologies reflexively associated with the Hadoop stack don't require Hadoop to be useful.

 

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Uploaded on August 20, 2015