The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning.

Spark has dethroned MapReduce and changed big data forever, but that rapid ascent has been accompanied by persistent frustrations ...

Spark code is also much more efficient than MapReduce code, allowing developers to write concise routines in a variety of languages using APIs for Scala, Java, Python, and R. Spark’s productivity ...

Databricks, the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark project, published a new report indicating the technology is still red-hot, driven by more use of SQL, streaming ...