This document provides lessons learned from optimizing Apache Spark for NoSQL databases like Riak. Some key lessons include:
1. Parallelizing operations whenever possible to avoid overloading Riak with too many direct key-based gets or secondary index queries.
2. Being smart about data mapping between NoSQL data structures and Spark DataFrames/RDDs for efficient processing.
3. Optimizing performance at all levels from the network protocol to data locality optimizations.
4. Being flexible in supporting multiple languages and deployment environments for Spark and NoSQL integrations.
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