One thing I like about Spark is the number of data sources it supports, including its ability to write out to a table or whatever. If you want to set up a JDBC

One thing I like about Spark is the number of data sources it supports, including its ability to write out to a table or whatever. If you want to set up a JDBC or ODBC server you can also access spark SQL : https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-distributed-sql-engine.html https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-distributed-sql-eng... From an analytics perspective, a lot of people like the ability to connect to a JDBC or ODBC source.