by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “In order to better understand Apache Spark’s growing role in big data, Taneja Group conducted a major market research project, surveying approximately 7,000 people. The sample was made up of technical and managerial job roles from around the world directly involved in big data. The survey, […]
Databricks Adds Deep Learning Support to Cloud-Based Apache Spark Platform
by Angela Guess A new press release out of the company reports, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the Apache Spark™ project, today announced the addition of deep learning support to its cloud-based Apache Spark platform. This enhancement adds GPU support and integrates popular deep learning libraries to the Databricks’ big data platform, […]
Databricks Now Supports Apache Spark 2.0 on Its Just-in-Time Data Platform
by Angela Guess According to a new release out of the company, “Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced that Apache Spark 2.0 is generally available on its just-in-time data platform, making it the first vendor to offer Apache Spark 2.0 support. With major contributions from Databricks and the […]
Teradata Aster Connector for Spark Drives Data Democracy
by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, “Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company, today introduced the Teradata Aster Connector for Spark, an industry-first integration of Apache Spark analytics with Teradata Aster Analytics. The connector enables pre-built analytics functions from both solutions to be executed from Aster Analytics […]
Databricks Announces General Availability of Community Edition
by Angela Guess A new article out of the organization reports, “Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced the General Availability of Databricks Community Edition (DCE), a free version of the just-in-time data platform built on top of open source Apache Spark, at Spark Summit 2016. DCE is accessible […]
MapR Redefines Big Data Landscape with Dedicated Enterprise-Grade Spark Distribution
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, announced today at Spark Summit a new enterprise-grade Apache Spark distribution. This new distribution includes the complete Spark stack engineered to support advanced analytic applications, along with patented innovations in the MapR Platform, […]
Snowflake Sparkles with Native Apache Spark Connector
by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, “Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, today announced Snowflake Data Source for Spark — a native connector that joins the power of Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse with Apache Spark. This tight integration provides Spark developers a ready-to-use platform for diverse data that […]
5 Open Source Tools You Should Learn to Boost Your Data Career
by Angela Guess Sam Dean recently wrote in Linux, “A decade ago, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst predicted that open source tools and platforms would become pervasive in IT. Fast-forward to today, and that prediction has come true, with profound implications for the employment market… In particular, open source cloud, Big Data and networking platforms […]
MapR Ships 8th Release of Apache Spark Stack on MapR Converged Data Platform
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, today announced the immediate availability of Apache Spark 1.6.1 on the MapR Converged Data Platform making it the eighth release of the full Spark stack available to MapR customers. Additionally, the free, complete […]
Apache Spark Continues to Gain Popularity
by Angela Guess Brian Taylor reports in TechRepublic, “Apache Spark continues to attract attention in the big data world, where it’s expected to help drive the next wave of innovation. A survey on Hadoop from big data company Syncsort showed that 70% of survey participants are most interested in Spark, higher even than MapReduce, the […]