Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 1 – Alteryx and Databricks today announced they are collaborating to drive the value of Apache Hadoop and Spark into the hands of everyday analysts. These companies will ...

For now, MapR seems to be sitting on the sidelines of the “My Hadoop distro is better than yours” game, and as Jack Norris, the company’s CMO puts it, “we’re concentrating on doing what’s best for our ...

Alteryx and Databricks plan to democratize the building of Hadoop analytics using SparkR. This is a good move at a time when even the smallest businesses are generating or consuming vast amounts of ...

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

Alteryx and Databricks has announced they are collaborating to drive the value of Apache Hadoop and Spark into the hands of everyday analysts. These companies will become the primary committers to ...