SparkSQL is just the latest addition to the technology stack that provides access to big data. From an analytics perspective, an enterprise has a significant amount of data and needs to turn its data ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

Recent surveys and forecasts of technology adoption have consistently suggested that Apache Spark is being embraced at a rate that outperforms other big data frameworks Initially open-sourced in 2012 ...

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 ...

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What’s the difference between SPARK 2014 and Apache Spark? Actually, the answer is quite easy. SPARK 2014 is a programming environment based on the Ada programming language. Apache’s open-source SPARK ...

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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 ...