A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

Spark has generated huge excitement in the big data community. It has provided the path for making the speed or velocity layer of big data reality, simplified some of the gotchas of MapReduce, and ...

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 ...

At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer event. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake 2.0, the next ...