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 ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 5 — Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, today launched major enhancements to its cloud-based platform with the 2.0 release. The new features ...

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 ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward of the open source Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics, has upgraded its Spark-based platform, adding support for the R programming language, ...

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You probably did not hear it here first. Spark has been making waves in big data for a while now, and 2017 has not disappointed anyone who has bet on its meteoric rise. That was a pretty safe bet ...

For those of you just tuning in, Spark, an open source cluster computing framework, was originally developed by Matei Zaharia at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, and later open-sourced and donated to ...

Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as ...