Spark doesn't depend on much of anything from the Hadoop ecosystem, including HDFS. It supports S3, as well as NFS or any other locally mountable filesystem rig

Spark doesn't depend on much of anything from the Hadoop ecosystem, including HDFS. It supports S3, as well as NFS or any other locally mountable filesystem right out of the box. The FAQ talks a bunch about Spark's weak ties to Hadoop. http://spark.apache.org/faq.html http://spark.apache.org/faq.html