eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Apache Spark has been called a game changer and perhaps ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

In theory, data lakes sound like a good idea: One big repository to store all data your organization needs to process, unifying myriads of data sources. In practice, most data lakes are a mess in one ...

The Apache Spark Big Data processing framework will account for more than a third of all Big Data spending by 2022, according to new research by Wikibon. Wikibon Big Data analyst George Gilbert’s ...

Originally created at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark is a “lightning-fast unified analytics engine” designed for large-scale data processing. It works with cluster computing platforms ...

One of the hottest open source projects in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem was upgraded with new SQL functionality and more as the Apache Software Foundation announced the release of Apache Spark 1.0.

Microsoft today announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company ...

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 ...

IBM today announced support for the open source Apache Spark project, giving another boost to this increasingly popular in-memory data processing framework. Spark both complements and — in some cases ...