[postgis-users] SAP Claims Geospatial at Apache SPARK summit

[maplabs at light42.com]

I am interested if anyone in the PostGIS community here, wants to 
discuss what this is and what it means.. 
(note I recently re-built a SOLR/Lucene Spatial and PostGIS benchmark also)

http://databricks.com/blog/2014/07/01/integrating-spark-and-hana.html

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Much of the Big Data paradigm has been built on the notion of bringing 
‘compute to the data’, as opposed to simply trying to ETL all the 
data to a single central repository. Spark and HANA embody this 
principle by providing powerful engines that operate on data in place. 
Beyond being a repository for valuable corporate data, HANA also 
provides a wide variety of advanced analytics packages – including 
predictive, text/NLP, and geospatial – at blazing fast speeds. Spark 
also provides advanced analytics capabilities – SQL, streaming data, 
machine learning, and graph computation – that work natively on HDFS 
and other data stores such as Cassandra. 
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Brian M Hamlin
OSGeo California Chapter
blog.light42.com