Cloudera has partnered with a startup called Databricks to integrate and support the Apache Spark data-processing platform within Cloudera’s Hadoop software. Spark, which is designed for speed and usability, is one… Read more »
A team of professors behind the open source Spark and Shark in-memory big data projects has raised $13.9 million to commercialize the products via a company called Databricks. Spark and Shark… Read more »
Hadoop not fast enough for you? Then you might want to get to know AMPLab, a University of California, Berkeley team developing faster versions of many core Hadoop components. Read more »