Informatica Big Data Parser vs Spark SQL comparison

Informatica Big Data Parser enables access to the most difficult data and file formats in Hadoop, reducing the time and cost of developing data handlers by 70 percent. It enables IT organizations to efficiently manage industry standards, binary documents, and hierarchical data.

Big Data Parser provides a unique development environment for lean data integration. With this software, your IT organization can view data samples within Big Data Parser Studio and understand their structure and layout through a set of integrated tools

Spark SQL is a Spark module for structured data processing. Unlike the basic Spark RDD API, the interfaces provided by Spark SQL provide Spark with more information about the structure of both the data and the computation being performed. There are several ways to interact with Spark SQL including SQL and the Dataset API. When computing a result the same execution engine is used, independent of which API/language you are using to express the computation. This unification means that developers can easily switch back and forth between different APIs based on which provides the most natural way to express a given transformation.