Databricks, the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark project, published a new report indicating the technology is still red-hot, driven by more use of SQL, streaming ...

The Apache Spark community last week announced Spark 3.2, a significant new release of the distributed computing framework. Among the more exciting features are deeper support for the Python data ...

Besides the default standalone cluster mode, Spark also supports other clustering managers including Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos. On programming languages, Spark supports Scala, Java, Python, and R.

And Apache Spark, which largely eclipsed Hadoop as the open source analytics poster child, has made its way into numerous Microsoft platforms, including its flagship SQL Server database and Azure ...

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 ...