In this video, Rick Janowski from IBM describes how the company is doubling down on Apache Spark for Big Data analytics. “At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed Spark into its ...

Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache Spark code directly in its cloud warehouse - no cluster setup required.… This is designed to avoid provisioning and maintaining a cluster ...

Databricks Inc. today took some serious steps toward boosting the value proposition of the popular open-source Apache Spark big data processing engine, which is facing potent new competition. The San ...

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Data integration and analytics supplier Pentaho, a subsidiary of Hitachi Group Co., is throwing its arms around Apache Spark in the new release of its Pentaho Business Analytics product. Pentaho said ...

For example, IBM reduced the code base of DataWorks –the company's popular data preparation and data refinement service –by over 87 percent, from 40 million lines of code to 5 million lines of code, ...

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 ...

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 ...