Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming data ...

Databricks Inc., a commercial champion of the open source Apache Spark Big Data analytics project founded by the technology's creators, introduced a new free community edition of its Spark-based data ...

A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

Spark is the ideal big data tool for data-driven enterprises because of its speed, ease of use and versatility. It will help you understand your data quickly and help you make informed decisions ...

It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific ...