The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

What's maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine.

What’s maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine.

What's maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine. Databricks argues that as more ...

Unveiled last June, the Apache Spark cloud-hosted platform from Databricks has now opened its doors for business.

Mataei Zaharia of Databricks recapped Spark progress last year, highlighting growing adoptionand performance improvements in areas including streaming data analysis.

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

Still, Databricks’ announcements today failed to address its in-memory data processing capabilities, which Mueller said was Spark’s biggest strength but also its biggest weakness.

Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software.