Spark SQL, part of Apache Spark big data framework, is used for structured data processing and allows running SQL like queries on Spark data. In this article, Srini Penchikala discusses Spark SQL ...

Apache Spark has released version 1.3 of their project. The main improvements are the addition of the DataFrames API, better maturity of the Spark SQL, as well as a number of new methods added to ...

For data engineers looking to leverage Apache Spark™'s immense growth to build faster and more reliable data pipelines, Databricks is happy to provide The Data Engineer's Guide to Apache Spark. This ...

Apache Spark 3.0 is now here, and it’s bringing a host of enhancements across its diverse range of capabilities. The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ...

Databricks, the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark project, published a new report indicating the technology is still red-hot, driven by more use of SQL, streaming ...

Both HANA and Spark can speak SQL, but with Vora SAP is not only making Spark speak a better and richer dialect of SQL – one that has support for the data hierarchies that are required for online ...

It’s hard to believe, but Apache Spark is turning 10 years old this year, as we wrote about last month. The technology has been a huge success, and become a critical component of many big data ...

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 ...

And Apache Spark, which largely eclipsed Hadoop as the open source analytics poster child, has made its way into numerous Microsoft platforms, including its flagship SQL Server database and Azure ...