If there is a “bottom line” to measuring the effectiveness of your big-data applications, it’s arguably performance, or how quickly those apps can finish the jobs they run. Let’s consider Spark. Spark ...

Apache Spark is an execution engine that broadens the type of computing workloads Hadoop can handle, while also tuning the performance of the big data framework. Hadoop specialist Cloudera recently ...

At its core are the RDD (Resilient Distributed Dataset) APIs that also manage fault-tolerance, but the performance is hindered by limited visibility for analysis and optimizations and what the authors ...

Big data adoption has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which has necessitated new technologies to analyze that data holistically. Individual big data solutions provide their ...