Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming data ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark data processing framework for Big Data analytics, published a new report indicating the technology is still ...