Data Summer Conf

GridGain technology evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will speak at the first international Data Summer Conf in Odessa, Ukraine -- a conference that will host subject matter leaders and international experts in the data management space.

The organizers said the goal is to "get data techies together, build a strong community and have fun here near the Black Sea coast, where the water meets the horizon."

Akmal's talk is titled, "Apache Ignite + Apache Spark RDDs and DataFrames integration."

This session will explain how Apache Spark and Ignite are integrated, and how they are used to together for analytics, stream processing and machine learning. By the end of this session attendees will understand: – How Apache Ignite’s native RDD and new native DataFrame APIs work – How to use Ignite as an in-memory database and massively parallel processing (MPP) style collocated processing for preparing and managing data for Spark – How to leverage Ignite to easily share state across Spark jobs using mutable RDDs and DataFrames – How to leverage Ignite distributed SQL and advanced indexing in memory to improve SQL performance