Big data adoption has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which has necessitated new technologies to analyze that data holistically. Individual big data solutions provide their ...

Matei Zaharia, an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and the initial creator of Apache Spark, took the stage at Strata 2014 to speak about the Spark open source project and about the way ...

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The misuse of data analytics is well documented — data being shoehorned to back up entrenched views, used selectively in petty corporate infighting, or simply misinterpreted. But even when done ...

The Spark streaming analytics engine is one of the most popular open source tools for weaving big data into modern applications architectures with over 800 contributors from 200 organizations. It ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 17 — Ryft, the performance leader for data search and analysis, today announced the company debuted a native integration with Spark that brings the 100X power and performance of ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

IBM today announced support for the open source Apache Spark project, giving another boost to this increasingly popular in-memory data processing framework. Spark both complements and — in some cases ...