The same team that created GemFire builds on Spark in a new open source database that can analyze OLTP and OLAP workloads side-by-side The team behind Pivotal’s GemFire in-memory transactional data ...

Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. The multi-petabyte storage racks nearly overflowing with unstructured and semi-structured data that are being built by hyperscalers, ...

Big data refers to datasets that are too large, complex, or fast-changing to be handled by traditional data processing tools. It is characterized by the four V's: Big data analytics plays a crucial ...

The Spark SQL module was introduced to reduce those limitations, and while the addition of SQL capabilities expanded what Spark can do, the performance still came up short by “an order of magnitude” ...

As the most active open-source project in the big data community, Apache SparkTM has become the de-facto standard for big data processing and analytics. Spark’s ease of use, versatility, and speed has ...