The Apache Software Foundation has announced the first production-ready release of Spark, analysis software that could speed jobs that run on the Hadoop data-processing platform. Dubbed the “Hadoop ...

Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software. Databricks Cloud is designed to provide a platform for ...

There is no shortage of big data sets in the healthcare world, encompassing everything from chest X-rays to drug research. Startups and established companies alike are both using artificial ...

Reactive programming company Typesafe today released a survey that confirms the high adoption rate of Apache Spark, an open source Big Data processing framework that improves traditional Hadoop-based ...

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 ...

Apache Spark has come to represent the next generation of big data processing tools. By drawing on open source algorithms and distributing the processing across clusters of compute nodes, the Spark ...