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Databricks today announced a new big data platform called the Databricks Cloud that will allow users to leverage Apache Spark technology to build end-to-end pipelines that underlie advanced analytic ...

Apache Spark is one such open source tool which is developed for Big Data processing. The most common and traditional data processing applications are becoming insufficient in handling a great volume ...

Apache Spark, the extremely popular data analytics execution engine, was initially released in 2012. It wasn’t until 2015 that Spark really saw an uptick in support, but by November 2015, Spark saw 50 ...

Top-ranked Apache Hadoop distribution MapR today announced a new initiative to integrate Apache Drill, which provides instant, self-service data exploration across multiple data sources, with Apache ...

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...