Python vs. Scala vs. SparkUpdate 20 Jan 2015 Thanks to a suggestion from a reddit comment, I added benchmarks for the python code running under PyPy. This makes the results even more interesting. PyPy actually runs the join faster than Scala when more cores are present. On the other hand, it runs the sort slower, leading to an approximately equal performance when there are more than 2 cores available. This is really good n
