Big Data consultancy Mammoth Data today published a benchmark study that shows Google’s Cloud Dataflow service outperforms the extremely popular open source data processing engine, Apache Spark. Google hired the company to […]
Thanks to an impressive grab bag of improvements in version 2.0, Spark’s quasi-streaming solution has become more powerful and easier to manage Last year was a banner year for Spark. Big names […]
One would obviously expect Hadoop to dominate the discussions at the recent Strata & Hadoop World conference in San Jose, CA. But much of the buzz this year was around Apache Spark, […]
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. […]
