The same team that created GemFire builds on Spark in a new open source database that can analyze OLTP and OLAP workloads side-by-side The team behind Pivotal’s GemFire in-memory transactional data ...

One of the hottest open source projects in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem was upgraded with new SQL functionality and more as the Apache Software Foundation announced the release of Apache Spark 1.0.

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For data engineers looking to leverage Apache Spark™'s immense growth to build faster and more reliable data pipelines, Databricks is happy to provide The Data Engineer's Guide to Apache Spark. This ...

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 ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...

Editor’s Note: Vaibhav Nivargi is the founder and chief architect of ClearStory Data, a data analytics service provider. This week the fast-growing Apache Spark community is gathering in New York City ...