Apache Spark is arguably the hottest big data technology of the year — or maybe ever. More than 1000 enthusiasts have committed code to the open source project and almost every big data provider has ...

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Mining Big Data can be an incredibly frustrating experience due to its inherent complexity and a lack of tools. Reynold Xin and Aaron Davidson are Committers and PMC Members for Apache Spark and use ...

As Big Data hits the Big Apple, industry insiders are beginning to see big shifts in customer requirements for their data. What are the current trends? Rob Thomas, vice president of product ...

Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab as a way ...

In this video from the Disruptive Technologies session at the 2015 HPC User Forum, Joseph George from HP presents: Challenging Analytics Architectures. “This paper describes the HP Big Data Reference ...