Originally created at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark is a “lightning-fast unified analytics engine” designed for large-scale data processing. It works with cluster computing platforms ...

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Enterprise software development and open source big data analytics technologies have largely existed in separate worlds. This is especially true for developers in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. The ...

In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, DK Panda from Ohio State University presents: Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark and Memcached. Apache Hadoop ...

Big data refers to datasets that are too large, complex, or fast-changing to be handled by traditional data processing tools. It is characterized by the four V's: Big data analytics plays a crucial ...

Microsoft is making what it claims is an “extensive commitment” to the Apache Spark Big Data processing engine, launching several new offerings out of preview and into general release. The move is the ...

Microsoft today announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company ...

IBM today pledged it would devote 3500 researchers to the open source big data project, Apache Spark. It also announced that it was open sourcing its own IBM SystemML machine learning technology in a ...

Enterprise Hadoop distribution vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is seeking to integrate the open source Apache Drill and Apache Spark projects used for Big Data analytics in the Hadoop ecosystem. In ...

Microsoft is upping its commitment to the open-source Apache Spark big-data processing engine. At this week's Spark Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft officials will be talking up Microsoft's support ...