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Re:Databricks Raises $140M from Top VCs in Mission to Bring ... by coolio222 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:56PM (#15074840)
May I ask why you have chosen Spark? I get that it it more convenient than Hadoop. But why not use an analytics DB like Redshift or Impala. What's the use case for Spark? Do you store your data in flat files and how do you access it with standard tools ala Power BI, Tableau, Looker?
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