TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coherent today announced that it is launching Coherent Spark, an application that will turn an entire Microsoft Excel spreadsheet into a simple, reusable function, ...

A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

If there is a “bottom line” to measuring the effectiveness of your big-data applications, it’s arguably performance, or how quickly those apps can finish the jobs they run. Let’s consider Spark. Spark ...

The availability of Apache Spark 1.6 was announced today. The Spark 1.6 release continues the major theme of making Spark easier to use for data applications, said Reynold Xin, co-founder at ...

In the world of distributed computing, Spark has simplified development and open the doors for many to start writing distributed programs. Folks with little to no distributed coding experience can now ...

Apache Spark is the word. OK, technically that’s two, but it’s clear that in the last year the big data processing platform has come into its own, with heavyweights like Cloudera and IBM throwing ...