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 ...

Apache Spark 3.0 is now here, and it’s bringing a host of enhancements across its diverse range of capabilities. The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ...

AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services, showcases Python and Apache Spark capabilities in a version 4.0 release introduced this week. The upgrade adds engines ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article discusses key tools needed to master, in order to penetrate the data space. Such tools include SQL and NoSQL databases, Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, ...