Last week, Microsoft unveiled the first release candidate refresh for SQL Server 2019, with Big Data Clusters being the primary focus of the announcement. This capability allows for the deployment of ...

In this video, Rick Janowski from IBM describes how the company is doubling down on Apache Spark for Big Data analytics. “At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed Spark into its ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...

Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache Spark code directly in its cloud warehouse - no cluster setup required.… This is designed to avoid provisioning and maintaining a cluster ...

Databricks Inc. today took some serious steps toward boosting the value proposition of the popular open-source Apache Spark big data processing engine, which is facing potent new competition. The San ...

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Enterprise software development and open source big data analytics technologies have largely existed in separate worlds. This is especially true for developers in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. The ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...

Even though Spark and Delta are the perfect basis for your future data pipeline, and the Data Lakehouse architecture allows us to enable a tremendous amount of new use cases, the usability and ...