apache/incubator-spark — pull request #64 by prabeesh (2013-10-16 08:28:26+00:00)
Title: MQTT Streaming adapter 

MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things connectivity protocol.
It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. You may read more about it here http://mqtt.org/

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is an open message protocol for M2M communications. It enables the transfer of telemetry-style data in the form of messages from devices like sensors and actuators, to mobile phones, embedded systems on vehicles, or laptops and full scale computers.

The protocol was invented by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM, and Arlen Nipper of Cirrus Link Solutions

This protocol enables a publish/subscribe messaging model in an extremely lightweight way. It is useful for connections with remote locations where line of code and network bandwidth is a constraint.

MQTT is one of the widely used protocol for 'Internet of Things'. This protocol is getting much attraction as anything and everything is getting connected to internet and they all produce data. Researchers and companies predict some 25 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2015.

Plugin/Support for MQTT is available in popular MQs like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc.

Support for MQTT in Spark will help people with Internet of Things (IoT) projects to use Spark Streaming for their real time data processing needs (from sensors and other embedded devices etc).