Apache Spark, the widely used open source cluster computing framework featuring a general processing engine for Big Data analytics, has reached version 2.0, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ...

Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache Spark code directly in its cloud warehouse - no cluster setup required.… This is designed to avoid provisioning and maintaining a cluster ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

Now in public preview, Snowpark Connect promises to reduce latency and complexity by moving analytics workloads where the data is. Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads ...

Enterprise software development and open source big data analytics technologies have largely existed in separate worlds. This is especially true for developers in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. The ...