Everything’s turning up Spark this summer—particularly after IBM announced plans to devote massive education, research and development resources to Spark projects. Big Blue is even opening a Spark ...

For several years big data has been nearly synonymous with Hadoop, a relatively inexpensive way to store huge amounts of data on commodity servers. But recently banks have started using an alternative ...

Yeah, Spark is still hot. It's seeing tremendous growth in contributing developers, user roles, applications, usage cases and just about every other Big Data metric you can think of, according to a ...