One of the hottest open source projects in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem was upgraded with new SQL functionality and more as the Apache Software Foundation announced the release of Apache Spark 1.0.

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark data processing framework for Big Data analytics, published a new report indicating the technology is still ...

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For data engineers looking to leverage Apache Spark™'s immense growth to build faster and more reliable data pipelines, Databricks is happy to provide The Data Engineer's Guide to Apache Spark. This ...

Apache Gluten is an open source middle-layer plugin designed to dramatically accelerate Apache Spark™ SQL and DataFrame workloads. It acts as a bridge, offloading compute-intensive tasks from the JV ...

WILMINGTON, DE — The Apache Software Foundation announced that two open-source projects, Apache Gluten and Apache Polaris, have been promoted to Top-Level Project status within the organization. The ...

Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. The multi-petabyte storage racks nearly overflowing with unstructured and semi-structured data that are being built by hyperscalers, ...

Recent surveys and forecasts of technology adoption have consistently suggested that Apache Spark is being embraced at a rate that outperforms other big data frameworks Initially open-sourced in 2012 ...