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 ...

Yeah, Spark is still hot. It's seeing tremendous growth in contributing developers, user roles, applications, usage cases and just about every other Big Data metric you can think of, according to a ...

The amazingly active open source Apache Spark project used for Big Data analytics shows no signs of slowing down, as IBM has gone all in on the technology today by promising tons of development ...

Big data adoption has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which has necessitated new technologies to analyze that data holistically. Individual big data solutions provide their ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...

With a new streaming system, performance enhancements, and API refinements, Apache Spark 2.0 offers a big umbrella to data users Apache Spark, the in-memory processing system that’s fast become a ...

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 ...