Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and Apache Spark in one place.… Readers might note that other prominent vendors in ...

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” ...

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, ...

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...

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 ...

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 ...