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Re:Announcing Apache Spark 1.4 by bra-ket on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:10PM (#9702462)
you can use Spark JDBC RDD with Apache Phoenix, it's pretty fast: https://phoenix.apache.org/performance.html
Re:Announcing Apache Spark 1.4 by j-m-o on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:29PM (#9703497)
You can even go one better and use the Spark integration directly:

https://phoenix.apache.org/phoenix_spark.html