Cascading & GigaSpaces
September 11, 2012
We’ve just started a new project, which is to create a “planner” that lets you define & run complex workflows in GigaSpace’s XAP environment, using the Cascading API. There are lots of interesting challenges, mostly around various impedance mismatches between the Cascading/Hadoop model of data storage and parallel map-reduce execution, versus the in-memory data grid and transactional support provided by GigaSpaces. Step one has been to create a Cascading Tap more…