Apache Spark rose to fame as an in-memory data processing framework frequently used with Hadoop, but it’s fast transforming into a nucleus for building other data-processing products. Newly released, ...

EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and ...

Databricks, corporate provider of support and development for the Apache Spark in-memory big data project, has spiced up its cloud-based implementation of Apache Spark with two additions that top IT’s ...

This report focuses on how to tune a Spark application to run on a cluster of instances. We define the concepts for the cluster/Spark parameters, and explain how to configure them given a specific set ...