Thanks to an impressive grab bag of improvements in version 2.0, Spark's quasi-streaming solution has become more powerful and easier to manage Flink and Dataflow bring new innovations and target some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spark has generated huge excitement in the big data community. It has provided the path for making the speed or velocity layer of big data reality, simplified some of the gotchas of MapReduce, and ...

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Apache Spark has been lauded for its versatility and strengths as a distributed computing framework. It’s attractive, in part, because it can deliver analytics, do data processing, and handle machine ...

At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer event. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake 2.0, the next ...