Improved Fault-tolerance and Zero Data Loss in Apache Spark Streaming
Real-time stream processing systems must be operational 24/7, which requires them to recover from all kinds of failures in the system. Since its...
Databricks Expands Bay Area Presence, Moves HQ to San Francisco
Highlights: Databricks Expands Bay Area Presence, Moves HQ to San Francisco Company Names Kavitha Mariappan as Marketing Vice President Press Release: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/databricks-expands-bay-area-presence-140000610.html San...
Spark SQL Data Sources API: Unified Data Access for the Apache Spark Platform
Read Rise of the Data Lakehouse to explore why lakehouses are the data architecture of the future with the father of the data...
ML Pipelines: A New High-Level API for MLlib
MLlib’s goal is to make practical machine learning (ML) scalable and easy. Besides new algorithms and performance improvements that we have seen in...
Announcing Apache Spark Packages
Today, we are happy to announce Apache Spark Packages ( http://spark-packages.org ), a community package index to track the growing number of open source packages and libraries that work with Apache Spark. Spark Packages makes it easy for users to find, discuss, rate, and install packages for any version of Spark, and makes it easy for developers to contribute packages.
Announcing Apache Spark 1.2
We at Databricks are thrilled to announce the release of Apache Spark 1.2! Apache Spark 1.2 introduces many new features along with scalability...
Pearson uses Apache Spark Streaming for next generation adaptive learning platform
This is a guest blog post from our friends at Pearson outlining their Apache Spark use case. Introduction of Pearson Pearson is a...
Application Spotlight: Technicolor Virdata Internet of Things platform
This post is guest authored by our friends at Technicolor , whose Virdata platform is now “Certified on Apache Spark.” About Virdata Virdata...
Application Spotlight: Nube Reifier
This post is guest authored by our friends at Nube Technologies , whose Reifier platform is now “Certified on Apache Spark.” About Nube...
Databricks to run two massive online courses on Apache Spark
In the age of ‘Big Data,’ with datasets rapidly growing in size and complexity and cloud computing becoming more pervasive, data science techniques...