Enterprise software development and open source big data analytics technologies have largely existed in separate worlds. This is especially true for developers in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. The ...

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Big data adoption has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which has necessitated new technologies to analyze that data holistically. Individual big data solutions provide their ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

The Spark streaming analytics engine is one of the most popular open source tools for weaving big data into modern applications architectures with over 800 contributors from 200 organizations. It ...

Microsoft is making what it claims is an “extensive commitment” to the Apache Spark Big Data processing engine, launching several new offerings out of preview and into general release. The move is the ...

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest big data technology of the year — or maybe ever. More than 1000 enthusiasts have committed code to the open source project and almost every big data provider has ...

AtScale, a maker of big data reporting tools, has published speed tests on the latest versions of the top four big data SQL engines. Conclusion: Time to upgrade! Today AtScale released its Q4 ...

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 ...