In theory, data lakes sound like a good idea: One big repository to store all data your organization needs to process, unifying myriads of data sources. In practice, most data lakes are a mess in one ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this video from the OpenFabrics Workshop, Yuval Degani from Mellanox presents: Accelerating Apache Spark with RDMA. “Apache Spark is today’s fastest growing Big Data analysis platform. Spark ...

Typesafe, provider of a leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, announced the launch of full life cycle support for Apache Spark, big data’s fastest-growing ...

Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there’s yet another Apache project with the potential to shape the landscape even further: Apache Arrow.

Databricks Inc. today took some serious steps toward boosting the value proposition of the popular open-source Apache Spark big data processing engine, which is facing potent new competition. The San ...