Why is Spark So Hot? The amount of data generated around the globe each day is 2.5 exabytes (Adepta, March 2015), and the big data market reached $27.4 billion in 2014 (Wikibon, March 2015). Spark is ...

What’s the difference between SPARK 2014 and Apache Spark? Actually, the answer is quite easy. SPARK 2014 is a programming environment based on the Ada programming language. Apache’s open-source SPARK ...

Traditional relational databases have been highly effective at handling large sets of structured data. That’s because structured data conforms nicely to a fixed schema model of neat columns and rows ...

The quest to replace Hadoop’s aging MapReduce is a bit like waiting for buses in Britain. You watch a really long time, then a bunch come along at once. We already have Tez and Spark in the mix, but ...

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...