The importance of machine learning has not gone unnoticed, with 64 percent of the 2015 Spark Survey respondents using Spark for advanced analytics and 44 percent creating recommendation systems.

In concert with the shift to DataFrames, most applications today are using the Spark SQL engine, including many data science applications developed in Python and Scala languages. The Spark SQL engine ...

BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 2 — Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular open-source Big Data processing engine Apache Spark, today announced the launch of two massive open online ...

For Python developers, the Apache Spark project will introduce UDFs for running popular Python frameworks such as the Pandas ... It is a key indicator that when it comes to big data analytics, ...