Please help me here. I have been told by a technical guy at my place that Pentaho and Apache Spark are faster than Java. Is this the right statement even? Apache Spark and Pentaho are frameworks whereas Java is a language. To me it seems like comparing apples to oranges. Am I right in thinking that or what am I missing? Appreciate thoughts on this.
Much thanks!
Both run in the JVM, so they cannot be "faster than Java"
They might be able to get work done faster than writing the best possible multi-threaded code yourself, or other slice & dice BI workload (at least, in the Pentaho case) but that of course depends on the hardware resources available. E.g Java on my gaming desktop would run faster than a Spark cluster on a few Raspberry Pi