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authorEric Liang <ekl@databricks.com>2016-06-20 21:56:44 -0700
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[SPARK-16025][CORE] Document OFF_HEAP storage level in 2.0
This has changed from 1.6, and now stores memory off-heap using spark's off-heap support instead of in tachyon. Author: Eric Liang <ekl@databricks.com> Closes #13744 from ericl/spark-16025.
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<td> MEMORY_ONLY_2, MEMORY_AND_DISK_2, etc. </td>
<td> Same as the levels above, but replicate each partition on two cluster nodes. </td>
</tr>
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+ <td> OFF_HEAP (experimental) </td>
+ <td> Similar to MEMORY_ONLY_SER, but store the data in
+ <a href="configuration.html#memory-management">off-heap memory</a>. This requires off-heap memory to be enabled. </td>
+</tr>
</table>
**Note:** *In Python, stored objects will always be serialized with the [Pickle](https://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html) library,