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authorCalvin Jia <jia.calvin@gmail.com>2015-05-25 16:50:43 -0700
committerReynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>2015-05-25 16:50:43 -0700
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[SPARK-6391][DOCS] Document Tachyon compatibility.
Adds a section in the RDD persistence section of the programming-guide docs detailing Spark-Tachyon version compatibility as discussed in [[SPARK-6391]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6391). Author: Calvin Jia <jia.calvin@gmail.com> Closes #6382 from calvinjia/spark-6391 and squashes the following commits: 113e863 [Calvin Jia] Move compatibility info to the offheap storage level section. 7942dc5 [Calvin Jia] Add a section in the programming-guide docs for Tachyon compatibility.
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Compared to MEMORY_ONLY_SER, OFF_HEAP reduces garbage collection overhead and allows executors
to be smaller and to share a pool of memory, making it attractive in environments with
large heaps or multiple concurrent applications. Furthermore, as the RDDs reside in Tachyon,
- the crash of an executor does not lead to losing the in-memory cache. In this mode, the memory
+ the crash of an executor does not lead to losing the in-memory cache. In this mode, the memory
in Tachyon is discardable. Thus, Tachyon does not attempt to reconstruct a block that it evicts
- from memory.
+ from memory. If you plan to use Tachyon as the off heap store, Spark is compatible with Tachyon
+ out-of-the-box. Please refer to this <a href="http://tachyon-project.org/master/Running-Spark-on-Tachyon.html">page</a>
+ for the suggested version pairings.
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