The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

A year ago, Microsoft enabled .NET developers to work with Apache Spark using C# or F#, instead of Python or Scala. More functionality and performance enhancements have since been layered on. The ...

Spark Declarative Pipelines provides an easier way to define and execute data pipelines for both batch and streaming ETL workloads across any Apache Spark-supported data source, including cloud ...

AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services, showcases Python and Apache Spark capabilities in a version 4.0 release introduced this week. The upgrade adds ...

We’re proud to share the complete text of O’Reilly’s new Learning Spark, 2nd Edition with you. It includes the latest updates on new features from the Apache Spark 3.0 release, to help you: ...