Learning Spark : [lightning fast data analysis] This book introduces Apache Spark the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. Youll learn how to express parallel jobs with just a few lines of code and cover applications from simple batch jobs to stream processing and machine learning. This book introduces Apache Spark the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. With Spark you can tackle big datasets quickly through simple APIs in Python Java and Scala.