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Oct 14, 2015 · Big Data

Spark vs Hadoop, Flink, HBase/Cassandra, Kafka & Tachyon: Expert Q&A

During a lively “Sit and Discuss” session, experts compared Spark and Hadoop, evaluated Flink against Spark, contrasted HBase with Cassandra, explained why Kafka (and sometimes Flink) is preferred for distributed messaging, and shared insights on Tachyon’s role in modern big‑data ecosystems.