Spark Summit East is bringing together some of the biggest players in Big Data and analytics, and one of the main topics revolves around Spark versus Hadoop. Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts ...

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Yeah, Spark is still hot. It's seeing tremendous growth in contributing developers, user roles, applications, usage cases and just about every other Big Data metric you can think of, according to a ...

For several years big data has been nearly synonymous with Hadoop, a relatively inexpensive way to store huge amounts of data on commodity servers. But recently banks have started using an alternative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest big data technology of the year — or maybe ever. More than 1000 enthusiasts have committed code to the open source project and almost every big data provider has ...

Editor’s Note: Vaibhav Nivargi is the founder and chief architect of ClearStory Data, a data analytics service provider. This week the fast-growing Apache Spark community is gathering in New York City ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...