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The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and ...

Video: Machine learning: What it is and why it matters Hold those thoughts for a moment. Databricks, the company whose founders created the Apache Spark project, has sought to ride Spark's original ...

It’s been about three years since Apache Spark burst onto the big data scene and became one of the hottest technologies on the planet. Judging by the numbers surrounding Spark’s adoption—including ...

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 ...

As the most active open-source project in the big data community, Apache SparkTM has become the de-facto standard for big data processing and analytics. Spark’s ease of use, versatility, and speed has ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

Graph databases, such as Neo4j, Apache Spark GraphX, DataStax Enterprise Graph, IBM Graph, JanusGraph, TigerGraph, AnzoGraph, the graph portion of Azure Cosmos DB, and the subject of this review, ...