Spark doesn’t store data, it loads data for processing from other storages, usually disk-based, and then discards the data when the processing is finished. Ignite, on the other hand, provides a ...

Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab as a way ...

BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 10 — Databricks, the company founded by the creators of popular open-source Big Data processing engine Apache Spark, announced today that it has broken the world record for the ...

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 ...