In theory, data lakes sound like a good idea: One big repository to store all data your organization needs to process, unifying myriads of data sources. In practice, most data lakes are a mess in one ...

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 ...

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest big data technology of the year — or maybe ever. More than 1000 enthusiasts have committed code to the open source project and almost every big data provider has ...

Spark Summit East is bringing together some of the biggest players in Big Data and analytics, and one of the main topics revolves around Spark versus Hadoop. Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Apache Spark has been called a game changer and perhaps ...

Apache Spark with Java 8 is proving to be the perfect match for Big Data. Spark 1.0 was just released this May, and it’s already surpassed Hadoop in popularity on the Web. Java 8, the latest version, ...

Microsoft kicked off the Spark Summit in San Francisco with news of “an extensive commitment for Spark to power Microsoft’s big data and analytics offerings, including Cortana Intelligence Suite, ...

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 ...

AtScale, a maker of big data reporting tools, has published speed tests on the latest versions of the top four big data SQL engines. Conclusion: Time to upgrade! Today AtScale released its Q4 ...

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 ...