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Apache Spark has come to represent the next generation of big data processing tools. By drawing on open source algorithms and distributing the processing across clusters of compute nodes, the Spark ...

You probably did not hear it here first. Spark has been making waves in big data for a while now, and 2017 has not disappointed anyone who has bet on its meteoric rise. That was a pretty safe bet ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across 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 ...