There’s been a lot of rhetoric around Apache Spark over the last few years. Back in the fall of 2014, some even suggested — only partly in jest — that the Hadoop World conference change its name to ...

Apache Spark has been winning over users since it was developed at the University of California, Berkekey, AMPLab in 2009, but it has taken on a whole new level of popularity in the last year. All of ...

As the big data community gores itself over real-time vs. batch, Basho CTO Dave McCrory (@mccrory) offers an easy way to settle the question: Let gravity decide. Or data gravity, to be more precise.

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer's OnStrategies blog. Baer is a principal analyst covering Big Data at Ovum. If it seems like we've been down this path before, well, maybe we have. June has ...

Centrica, the utility whose brands include British Gas and Hive, has deployed a selection of big-data tools in a bid to improve customer satisfaction and business processes. Daljit Rehal, director of ...

The first Spark Summit East conference concluded yesterday, just a month after Apache Spark practically stole the show at the Strata+Hadoop World conference, reinvigorating the debate about where the ...

Listen in on any conversation about big data, and you’ll probably hear mention of Hadoop or Apache Spark. Here’s a brief look at what they do and how they compare. 1: They do different things. Hadoop ...