Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning.

Spark apps can be written in Java, Scala, or Python, and have been clocked running 10 to 100 times faster than equivalent MapReduce apps. Matei Zaharia, the creator of Spark and CTO of commercial ...

Python was already the most popular language in Spark before the latest batch of improvements (and Databricks and the Apache Spark community aren’t done). So it’s interesting to note the level of ...

Apache Spark: The Powerhouse of Big Data Processing Introduction to Apache Spark. Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine designed for big data processing. It was developed to overcome ...

GPU-accelerated Apache Spark To handle future data demands with Spark, Raheja suggested running the framework with Nvidia GPUs. A plugin jar like Rapids Accelerator for Apache Spark, he said, can ...