June was an exciting month for Apache Spark. At Hadoop Summit San Jose, it was a frequent topic of conversation, as well as the subject of many session presentations. On June 15, IBM announced plans ...

It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific ...

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer's OnStrategies blog. Baer is a principal analyst covering Big Data at Ovum. If it seems like we've been down this path before, well, maybe we have. June has ...

Listen in on any conversation about big data, and you’ll probably hear mention of Hadoop or Apache Spark. Here’s a brief look at what they do and how they compare. 1: They do different things. Hadoop ...

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 ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

Hortonworks announced that the Apache Spark, a new high-performance analytics engine, is fully enabled for the YARN resource management technology. This means that the Apache Spark can be deployed ...

Once, Hadoop and MapReduce were nearly synonymous, but today, Spark is the framework of choice for a new wave of big data practitioners Hadoop has never been in more desperate need of a lift than now.

The first Spark Summit East conference concluded yesterday, just a month after Apache Spark practically stole the show at the Strata+Hadoop World conference, reinvigorating the debate about where the ...