Spark is a large data processing framework built around speed, ease of use and complex analysis, providing a comprehensive and unified framework for managing various types of data, with iterations of higher efficiency, more versatile than Hadoop, and high fault tolerance as well as high availability and so on.

SuperMap iServer provides Distributed Analysis Service and Streaming Service based on Spark computing framework. And contains a Spark installation package in itself to help you start Spark service quickly. You also can build Spark cluster service separately, then configure and use it in iServer. Please refer to the following introduction for details:

• How to build Spark cluster service separately on other computer.
• If you choose to use the built-in Spark, you need to know How to prepare the environment to use the built-in Spark in iServer
• Improve the service performance by Spark cluster optimization configuration
• About how to Start Spark cluster service