Spark has grown rapidly over the past several years to become a significant tool in the big data world. Since emerging from the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley, Spark adoption has ...

Databricks Inc. is bringing Apache Spark to the enterprise, and Michael Armbrust, lead developer of Spark SQL at Databricks, created Spark SQL’s Catalyst Optimizer, a query API that is a fundamental ...

MemSQL, a leader in real-time databases for transactions and analytics, today announced significant advances for creating real-time data pipelines for Apache Spark, as well as support for the Python ...

Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming data ...

AMPLab, the UC Berkeley research unit famous for creating the wildly popular Apache Spark technology, has now developed an adjunct open source project that uses data compression for faster queries.

Any doubts about the skyrocketing rise of Apache Spark technology in the Big Data ecosystem were put to rest at a recent conference, where it almost stole the show. Big Data vendors large and small ...