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		cttet on March 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python to Scheme to Assembly (2014) I actually felt that R functions and data structures are more straight forward to use than SQL commands. But sadly the data only exists in memory..

baldfat on March 24, 2015 | [–]

The memory issue actually isn't "that bad." There are many different solutions and Spark and R are looking like amazing.

Here is the announcement link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/apache-spark-user-mi...

_ondq on March 24, 2015 | [–]

In R you can do anything, including graphics. SQL is just, well, SQL.

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