Redis Accelerates Spark by Over 100 Times

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwired) — 02/02/16 — Redis Labs, the home of Redis, today announced its integration with Spark SQL and the release of the package. Redis Labs– using time-series data show that running Spark on Redis as a data store results in 135 times faster processing compared to Spark using HDFS and 45 times faster processing compared to Spark using Tachyon as an off-heap data store or Spark storing the data on-heap.The Spark-Redis connector package is open source and provides