[PODLINGNAMESEARCH-36] Establish whether Spark is a suitable name

• Type: Suitable Name Search
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Podling: Spark
• Proposed Name: Apache Spark

Evidence Of Open Source Adoption

Ohloh:

Search for Spark yields 150+ results:

http://www.ohloh.net/p?ref=homepage&q=spark

7th hit on first page is incoming project:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/mesos-spark

SF.net:

http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:mac/freshness:recently-updated/?q=spark

None are for Hadoop or Big Data technologies, and range from projects related to Astronomy; to Physics; to XMPP clients; to operating systems.

Github

https://github.com/search?q=spark&type=&ref=simplesearch

1st 2 hits are for incoming Spark podling. 6 total hits on first page
(most compared to others) that are for incoming Spark podlng.

(1665 results)

Evidence Of Registration

A search on the USPTO TESS system for Spark yields 1327 results.

Top LIVE result is for fruit juices.

85960848 SPARK TSDR LIVE

Top LIVE computer related result is:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:yhyron.2.6

SPARKNODE

Looks related to cloud computing and services.

Other relevant live hits are related to business services and consulting. Nothing in the first few pages that I could find related to Big Data, or data processing specifically.

Evidence Of Use On World Wide Web

1. Google Search (259,000,000 results)

a. 2nd hit on First page on Google are is spark-project.org (the incoming podling). 1st hit is:

http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/

b. 1st page includes pointer to Video Game company Spark Unlimited.

2. Searched Github for Spark:

https://github.com/search?q=spark&type=&ref=simplesearch

1st 2 hits are for incoming Spark podling. 6 total hits on first page
(most compared to others) that are for incoming Spark podlng.

(1665 results)

3. Berkeley AMPLab (progenitor of project) funded by NSF and DARPA and industry consortia to develop Spark:

https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/sponsors/
https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/about/

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
• Created: 20/Jun/13 04:59
• Updated: 29/Jul/13 02:50
• Resolved: 29/Jul/13 02:50

Description

A suitable name search is required in order for Spark to graduate from the incubation.

Apache Spark is an open source system for fast and flexible large-scale data analysis. Spark provides a general purpose runtime that supports low-latency execution in several forms. These include interactive exploration of very large datasets, near real-time stream processing, and ad-hoc SQL analytics (through higher layer extensions).