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, ...

This report focuses on how to tune a Spark application to run on a cluster of instances. We define the concepts for the cluster/Spark parameters, and explain how to configure them given a specific set ...

Databricks, corporate provider of support and development for the Apache Spark in-memory big data project, has spiced up its cloud-based implementation of Apache Spark with two additions that top IT’s ...