Zoomdata- Spark Summit 2014

Exclusive Interview: Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark, on Spark, Hadoop, Flink, and Big Data in 2020

 

Apache Spark, which is a fast general engine for Big Data processing, is one the hottest Big Data technologies in 2015. It was created by Matei Zaharia, a brilliant young researcher, when he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley around 2009. Since....[More]

Apache Spark 1.5 presented by Databricks co-founder Patrick Wendell

 

Spark 1.5 ships Spark's Project Tungsten initiative, a cross-cutting performance update that uses binary memory management and code generation to dramatically improve latency of most Spark jobs. This release also includes several updates to Spark's DataFrame API and SQL optimizer, along with new Machine Learning algorithms and feature transformers, and several new features in Spark's native streaming engine

Spark DataFrames: Simple and Fast Analysis of Structured Data

This session will provide a technical overview of Spark’s DataFrame API. First, we’ll review the DataFrame API and show how to create DataFrames from a variety of data sources such as Hive, RDBMS databases, or structured file formats like Avro. We’ll then give example user programs that operate on DataFrames and point out...[More]

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