Spark has evolved considerably since the early days. Few new applications today use the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), which have largely been replaced by DataFrames. In concert with the shift ...

Debraj GuhaThakurta discusses ML and data analysis processes in Spark using examples written in Python and R.

Spark also provides many language choices, including Scala, Java, Python, and R. The 2015 Spark Survey that polled the Spark community shows particularly rapid growth in Python and R.

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) launched Snowpark Connect to address long-standing challenges associated with Spark Connector, ...

Reactive programming company Typesafe today released a survey that confirms the high adoption rate of Apache Spark, an open source Big Data processing framework that improves traditional Hadoop-based ...