It’s time for the next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product. The company today announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 and while yet another update to a ...

In a recent paper, researchers introduced Flare, a back-end for Spark that improves the framework’s performance closer to that of the top SQL query engines for relational and machine learning ...

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is enabled ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Apache Spark rose to fame as an in-memory data processing framework frequently used with Hadoop, but it’s fast transforming into a nucleus for building other data-processing products. Newly released, ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled ...

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 ...