Splice Machine taps Apache Spark for in-memory data muscle
Today's vast data volumes have spawned a variety of new database contenders, each with particular strengths and features to recommend them. Splice Machine is one such upstart, and while it's always banked on the scale-out capabilities of Hadoop, on Tuesday it placed an accompanying bet on Apache Spark's in-memory technology.
Splice Machine 2.0, which is now in public beta, integrates the open-source Apache Spark engine into its existing Hadoop-based architecture, creating a flexible hybrid SQL database that lets businesses perform transactional and analytical workloads at the same time.
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