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Azul’s Prime® runtime for Java is certified with Hortonworks, and the only JVM that supports highly consistent and pauseless execution of HDFS and HBase solutions regardless of user load or memory allocation. Zing also supports real-time use cases for Apache Spark™ not achievable with other JVMs, and supports large in-memory indices for Apache Solr™ without performance penalties.
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