Databricks wants to make it possible to take humans out of the loop entirely when it comes to running complicated data analysis jobs. The company, which offers a commercial version of Spark, now ...

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Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark—the powerful open-source processing engine that provides blazingly fast and sophisticated analytics—announced today the launch of ...

Databricks, the company founded by the creators of popular open-source Big Data processing engine Apache Spark, announced today that it has broken the world record for the GraySort, a third-party, ...

Impetus Technologies, has announced StreamAnalytix 3.0, which adds support for Apache Spark-based batch processing and enriched online and offline machine learning features. The new capabilities are ...

Hadoop needs fast and easy-to-use stream processing, and Flink provides that -- but it'll compete with Spark and Storm Apache Flink, a potential contender for Apache Spark’s big-data processing jobs, ...

Apache Spark's powerful open-source platform enables high-speed data processing for large and complex datasets. The joint benchmarking used the k-core decomposition algorithm of Spark's GraphX ...

A little-known startup called Hazelcast Inc. is hoping to steal some of the limelight from popular open-source projects Apache Spark and Apache Flink, launching what it claims is a faster and ...