Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and Apache Spark in one place.… Readers might note that other prominent vendors in ...

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 ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...