A new preview of R Server for HDInsight, upgraded Spark for HDInsight and the general availability of Azure Data Catalog headline Microsoft’s announcements at Strata + Hadoop World. During last year’s Strata […]
Do you think National Hockey League goalies have cat-like quickness? Well they do, quite literally, according to the smart folks at Sport Science. As this episode notes, a goalie is able to […]
The global big data market is poised to explode over the next decade, according to a new forecast, topping an estimated $92 billion by 2026 as new streaming analytics technologies emerge. Market […]
Apache Spark has seen explosive growth in recent months. But like the implementation of any new technology, there are always important questions that the IT leader should ask before starting the implementation. […]
Apache Spark is great for processing large amounts of data over large clusters, but wouldn’t it be great if you could process data in near real time? You can with Spark Streaming. […]
Interest in Apache Spark is ballooning as word spreads about the real advantages it brings to the world of big data analytics. But like most new technologies, adopting Spark is not always […]
Big Data has given rise to the era of data-driven advertising. Thanks to big data analytics platforms like hadoop vs. spark, today’s marketers can leverage massive amounts of unstructured data from multiple […]
The folks at Databricks gave a glimpse of what’s to come in Spark 2.0 Among the changes that are sure to capture the attention of Spark users is the new Structured Streaming […]
Many enterprises today are building their business analytics programs around open source tools, but one software company took a different path. You might think that the company behind JW Player, a popular […]
With the general availability of its Converged Data Platform, MapR Technologies brings Hadoop together with Spark, Web-scale storage, NoSQL and streaming capabilities in a unified cluster designed to support next-generation big data […]
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