Every cluster will include SQL Server, the Hadoop file system and Spark. As for the name, it’s worth noting that many pundits expected a “SQL Server 2018,” but Microsoft opted to skip a year ...

SQL Server 2019 leverages PolyBase for full-on data virtualization and combines its Linux/container compatibility with Kubernetes (K8s) to deliver a new technology called Big Data Clusters (BDC).

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is ...

PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters.

Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning.

Databricks, the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark project, published a new report indicating the technology is still red-hot, driven by more use of SQL, streaming ...