Apache Spark 3.0 is now here, and it’s bringing a host of enhancements across its diverse range of capabilities. The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ...

Video: Machine learning: What it is and why it matters Hold those thoughts for a moment. Databricks, the company whose founders created the Apache Spark project, has sought to ride Spark's original ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

Overview of Core Features and Architecture of Spark 3.x Before starting practical work, we must first understand the core improvements of Spark 3.x compared to 2.x: Performance optimization: ...

Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and ...

AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services, showcases Python and Apache Spark capabilities in a version 4.0 release introduced this week. The upgrade adds engines ...

Google Cloud is adding new features to Colab in BigQuery that, it said, will boost the productivity of data scientists.