First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform and founded by the team who created Apache Spark™, today announced the availability of ...

The immensely popular open-source cluster computing framework Apache Spark has just reached version 2.0, according to an announcement by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) yesterday. Spark’s ...

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Scott Guthrie, Microsoft EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, ...

Databricks has announced that, in collaboration with industry partners, it has broken the world record in the CloudSort Benchmark, a third-party industry benchmarking competition for processing large ...

Two years in the making, Apache Spark 2.0 will officially debut in a few weeks from Databricks Inc., which just released a technical preview so Big Data developers could get their hands on the "shiny ...

Along with phenomena such as container technology Docker, Apache Spark has emerged as a new darling of the open-source world, with widespread take-up by data teams and developers, backed by a highly ...

Invented eight years ago and intensively commercialized over the past several years, Apache Spark has become a core power tool for data scientists and other developers working sophisticated projects ...