Streaming is one of the top trends we've been keeping up with. The latest episode in that saga was adding ACID capabilities to Apache Flink, as covered by ZDNet's Tony Baer last week. This ...

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 ...

Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming data ...

A closeup of a computer screen with data-driven analytics and business solutions displayed. On August 8, 2025, Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) launched the public preview of Snowpark Connect for Spark.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team ships new releases monthly, but new features are also continually being provided via other means, such as extensions. Here's a look at some brand-new functionality ...

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

On August 8, 2025, Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) launched the public preview of Snowpark Connect for Spark. This new architecture allows Apache Spark code to run directly in Snowflake warehouses.