[TINKERPOP-868] Allow Spark Gremlin Computer to Reuse Spark Contexts

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.0-incubating
• Component/s: hadoop
• Assignee: Marko A. Rodriguez
• Reporter: Russell Spitzer
• Created: 07/Oct/15 01:00
• Updated: 07/Oct/15 16:20
• Resolved: 07/Oct/15 16:20

Description

So that users don't have to face the overhead of recreating Spark Contexts between jobs, we can provide an option so that contexts can be saved between jobs in a given JVM. This will also allow for simultaneous use of SparkGraphComputers sharing a single context.

I propose to enable this via a new property

gremlin.spark.persistContext , Default: false (old behavior)