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Despite challenges including a new location and a nasty Nor'easter that put a crimp on travel, Spark Summit East managed to draw more than 1,500 attendees to its February 7-9 run at the John B. Hynes ...

Overview:  Open-source big data tools help businesses handle large amounts of information faster and more efficiently.Popular ...

The Spark streaming analytics engine is one of the most popular open source tools for weaving big data into modern applications architectures with over 800 contributors from 200 organizations. It ...

Microsoft today announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company ...

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 ...

One upon a time, the performance of an analytics application was not nearly as important as it is today. Historically, most analytics applications were focused on historical events so a fast database ...

Big data adoption has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which has necessitated new technologies to analyze that data holistically. Individual big data solutions provide their ...

The misuse of data analytics is well documented — data being shoehorned to back up entrenched views, used selectively in petty corporate infighting, or simply misinterpreted. But even when done ...

IBM today announced support for the open source Apache Spark project, giving another boost to this increasingly popular in-memory data processing framework. Spark both complements and — in some cases ...