We’ll be using Apache Spark 2.2.0 here, but the code in this tutorial should also work on Spark 2.1.0 and above. How to run Apache Spark Before we begin, we’ll need an Apache Spark installation.

Hadoop has become an extremely big name here at SiliconANGLE, being one of the premiere open source cloud-storage and -computing projects. If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t had a chance t ...

Apache Hadoop may be used interchangeably to refer to Apache Spark and other data science tools. SEE: For more clarity on how to approach Hadoop, check out our Hadoop cheat sheet.

Jeffrey Breen of Atmosphere Research Group presented at tk how to use Apache Hadoop with the statistical programming language R using RHadoop. Hadoop has become practically synonymous with big data a ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

Retirements of 13 big data-related Apache projects -- including Sentry, Tajo and Falcon -- have been announced in 11 days. It looks like the idealistic days of Hadoop and big data are officially over.

Apache Phoenix is a relatively new open source Java project that provides a JDBC driver and SQL access to Hadoop’s NoSQL database: HBase. It was created as an internal project at Salesforce ...

Hadoop is great for one-time jobs and off-line batch processing, especially where the data is already in the Hadoop filesystem and will be read many times. My first example makes more sense if you ...

The Apache Software Foundation's promotion of Tez to a top-level project not only endorses the technology but also the strength of the community behind it, according to Hortonworks, the Hadoop ...