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Spark Just Passed Hadoop in Popularity on the Web–Here’s Why

Interest in Apache Spark surpassed Apache Hadoop for the first time last month, according to Google Trends. While it's not a definitive statement of Spark's actual impact on big data processing in the real world, it does Read more…

‘What Is Big Data’ Question Finally Settled?

People have been debating what "big data" means ever since the term appeared in the lexicon. Researchers at Cal Berkeley recently pepper dozens of prominent data scientists and industry leader with the question in hopes Read more…

Hadoop ISVs Break Away from MapReduce, Embrace Spark, In-Memory Processing

Big data analytic software vendors who run on Hadoop are increasingly replacing their MapReduce engines with Apache Spark and other in-memory analytic engines as the runtime of choice. Many of these next-gen Hadoop vendo Read more…