Microsoft is upping its commitment to the open-source Apache Spark big-data processing engine. At this week's Spark Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft officials will be talking up Microsoft's support ...

It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific ...

The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. In fact, Spark is a lot hotter than Hadoop – something that The ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

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 ...

Spark is the ideal big data tool for data-driven enterprises because of its speed, ease of use and versatility. It will help you understand your data quickly and help you make informed decisions ...

.NET for Apache Spark 1.0 provides high-performance .NET APIs to Apache Spark including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and MLlib Microsoft and the .NET Foundation have released version 1.0 of .NET for ...