The cloud-hosted environment, described by Databricks as being deployed by more than 150 firms, aims to simplify the use of the open-source cluster compute engine and cut the time spent developing, ...

We’re living in a world of big data. The current generation of line-of-business computer systems generate terabytes of data every year, tracking sales and production through CRM and ERP. It’s a flood ...

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 ...