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Infinispan Spark connector 0.2 released!

The connector allows the Infinispan Server to become a data source for Apache Spark, for both batch jobs and stream processing, including read and write.

In this release, the highlight is the addition of two new operators to the RDD that support filtering using native capabilities of Infinispan. The first one is filterByQuery:

The second operator was introduced to replace the previous configuration based filter factory name, and was extended to support arbitrary parameters:

The connector has also been updated to be compatible with Spark 1.5.2 and Infinispan 8.1.0.Final.

For more details including full list of changes and download info please visit the Connectors Download section.  The project Github contains up-to-date info on how to get started with the connector, also make sure to try the included docker based demo. To report any issue or to request new features, use the new dedicated issue tracker. We’d love to get your feedback!

Get it, Use it, Ask us!

We’re hard at work on new features, improvements and fixes, so watch this space for more announcements!

Please, download and test the latest release.

The source code is hosted on GitHub. If you need to report a bug or request a new feature, look for a similar one on our JIRA issues tracker. If you don’t find any, create a new issue.

If you have questions, are experiencing a bug or want advice on using Infinispan, you can use GitHub discussions. We will do our best to answer you as soon as we can.

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