Matei Zaharia, an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and the initial creator of Apache Spark, took the stage at Strata 2014 to speak about the Spark open source project and about the way ...

I think we all agree that knowing what lies ahead in the future makes life much easier. This is true for life events as well as for prices of washing machines and refrigerators or the demand of ...

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 ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software. Databricks Cloud is designed to provide a platform for ...