Recent surveys and forecasts of technology adoption have consistently suggested that Apache Spark is being embraced at a rate that outperforms other big data frameworks Initially open-sourced in 2012 ...

Hadoop software and services firm Hortonworks says the plans it outlined today for Apache Spark are designed to make the in-memory engine a better candidate for enterprise use. The company is focusing ...

Reactive programming company Typesafe today released a survey that confirms the high adoption rate of Apache Spark, an open source Big Data processing framework that improves traditional Hadoop-based ...

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 ...