The Spark streaming analytics engine is one of the most popular open source tools for weaving big data into modern applications architectures with over 800 contributors from 200 organizations. It ...

Apache Spark, the widely used open source cluster computing framework featuring a general processing engine for Big Data analytics, has reached version 2.0, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ...

Hadoop software and services firm Hortonworks says the plans it outlined today for Apache Spark are designed to make the in-memory engine a better candidate for enterprise use. The company is focusing ...

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Apache Spark is an execution engine that broadens the type of computing workloads Hadoop can handle, while also tuning the performance of the big data framework. Hadoop specialist Cloudera recently ...

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 ...

Spark Summit keynotes are known for their surprises, and this year the stand-out changes were in data streaming, with sub-millisecond times predicted for some workloads. With multiple avenues open for ...

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Apache Spark, the open source distributed data processing system, may be about to light a wildfire under business applications. At least, that's the "huge bet" that IBM is making on the project, a ...