Together, these Spark 3.0 enhancements deliver an overall 2x boost to Spark SQL’s performance relative to Spark 2.4. But according to Databricks, on 60 out of 102 queries, the speedups ranged from 2x ...

Spark SQL is the Databricks-developed SQL query engine in Apache Spark, an open-source processing engine that is the most active project in the Big Data ecosystem with over 325 contributors in the ...

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

Unveiled last June, the Apache Spark cloud-hosted platform from Databricks has now opened its doors for business.

Hydrolix, the company transforming the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, is unveiling a new Apache Spark connector that democratizes the power of Databricks to customers' ...

Databricks, the primary commercial steward of the open source Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics, has upgraded its Spark-based platform, adding support for the R programming language, access ...

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 ...

Apache Spark was the pinnacle of advanced analytics just a few years ago. As the primary developer of this technology, Databricks Inc. has played a key role both in its commercial adoption, in the ...

In five years, analytics cluster framework Spark has moved from a research lab to the datacentre and production workloads. Databricks CEO Ion Stoica charts its rise.

Databricks, the inventor and commercial distributor of the Apache Spark processing platform, has announced the launch of an open source project called Delta Sharing at the Data + AI Summit.