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 ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark data processing framework for Big Data analytics, published a new report indicating the technology is still ...

Apache Spark is one of the quickest tools, which is apt for large data-scale processing. At times, it even considered as one the topmost data processing solution, which is even quicker than platforms ...

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 ...

ARMONK, N.Y., June 15 — IBM today announced a major commitment to Apache Spark, potentially the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data. At the core of this ...

An aggregate in mathematics is defined as a “collective amount, sum, or mass arrived at by adding or putting together all components, elements, or parts of an assemblage or group without implying that ...

DataStax says the latest version of its Apache Cassandra NoSQL database puts the focus on analytics, offering for the first time in-memory processing via the Apache Spark open-source engine. The use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...