by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform and founded by the team who created Apache Spark™, today announced the availability of Apache Spark 2.3.0 on Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform. Databricks is the first vendor to support Apache Spark 2.3 within a compute engine, Databricks Runtime […]
Qubole and Snowflake Bring Machine Learning to the Cloud Data Warehouse
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Qubole, the cloud big data-as-a-service company, and Snowflake Computing, the only data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced a new partnership that enables organizations to use Apache Spark in Qubole with data stored in Snowflake. With the new integration between cloud services, data teams are able […]
Databricks Unveils Serverless Platform for Apache Spark
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project, today announced a new offering that radically simplifies the management of Apache Spark workloads in the cloud. Databricks Serverless, the first fully managed computing platform for Apache Spark, allows teams to share a […]
Databricks Accelerates Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming and Launches Production Platform
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project, today announced the general availability of Structured Streaming, a high-level API that enables stream processing at up to five times higher throughput than other engines, on its cloud platform. Databricks is also contributing […]
Pepperdata Code Analyzer for Apache Spark Highlights Performance Bottlenecks for Developers
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Pepperdata, the DevOps for Big Data company, today announced Pepperdata Code Analyzer for Apache Spark, which provides Spark application developers the ability to identify performance issues and connect them to particular blocks of code within an application. Code Analyzer is a new product that follows on […]
Enterprise Cloud Management: Big Data, MDM, and Graph Database Realization
Reltio was originally founded in 2011, based on the premise organizations need quick and reliable access to relevant information. The Reltio goal is to help companies turn data into useful information. To this end, Reltio has developed an Enterprise Cloud Management platform for their clients, providing the tools and services needed to accomplish this goal. […]
Who Won the Debate Between Apache Spark and Hadoop?
Click to learn more about video blogger Andrew Brust. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next […]
Databricks Launches New Edition of Its Apache Spark-Based Cloud Platform for Data Engineers
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project and providers of the leading Spark-based cloud platform for data science, today announced an edition of its cloud platform optimized specifically for data engineering workloads called Databricks for Data Engineering. The new offering […]
MapR Releases New Ecosystem Pack with Optimized Security for Apache Spark
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of the Converged Data Platform that converges the essential data management and application processing technologies on a single, horizontally scalable platform, today announced its next major release of the MapR Ecosystem Pack (MEP) program. MEP is a broad set of open source […]
BlueConic Adds Recommendations Engine Powered by its Customer Data Platform
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “BlueConic, the world’s simplest and most accessible customer data platform (CDP), announces the BlueConic Recommendations Engine, a new feature enabling marketers to automatically deliver truly one-to-one content and product recommendations in real time to visitors. Companies of all sizes can benefit from this capability — increasing […]