This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer's OnStrategies blog. Baer is a principal analyst covering Big Data at Ovum. If it seems like we've been down this path before, well, maybe we have. June has ...

As the big data community gores itself over real-time vs. batch, Basho CTO Dave McCrory (@mccrory) offers an easy way to settle the question: Let gravity decide. Or data gravity, to be more precise.

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...

There’s been a lot of rhetoric around Apache Spark over the last few years. Back in the fall of 2014, some even suggested — only partly in jest — that the Hadoop World conference change its name to ...

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 ...