As analytics accelerate closer to real-time, historical analytics are not being displaced. The benefits of a comprehensive and historic view of data is becoming more than just a daydream. Imagine a ...

The in-memory batch-processing framework sheds more JVM performance bottlenecks as a major Hadoop vendor eyes Spark as a full-blown replacement for the aging MapReduce Apache Spark, the in-memory data ...

Apache Spark, the in-memory and real-time data processing framework for Hadoop, turned heads and opened eyes after version 1.0 debuted. The feature changes in 1.2 show Spark working not only to ...

Hadoop is entering a new chapter in its evolution with the launch of an ambitious community effort from Cloudera Inc. that aims to replace MapReduce as its default data processing engine. The proposed ...

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