ResearchSpark Summit sparks new funding, new releases
This week’s funding and new releases show that in-memory engine Spark, disk-based Hadoop and a range of SQL technologies are doing well and increasing in momentum. Read more »
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This week’s funding and new releases show that in-memory engine Spark, disk-based Hadoop and a range of SQL technologies are doing well and increasing in momentum. Read more »
Big data startup Databricks keeps humming along, announcing on Monday a large round of venture capital and a new cloud service that aims to seed adoption of Spark — a framework… Read more »
WANdisco, a company specializing in keeping Hadoop and HBase environments running in the case of system failures, has acquired a startup called OhmData that claims to have built a better version… Read more »
MapR has raised $110 million, $80 million of which is equity financing, in order to fuel its growing Hadoop business in the face of better-known rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks. Like those… Read more »
Apache Spark might push MapReduce to the back burner faster than some people might like, but it will also boost the Hadoop overall ecosystem. The project’s co-creator Matei Zaharia explains why… Read more »
The new system, called TSAR, acts as a real-time data orchestrator and makes it easier for product teams to receive insights into Twitter’s data much faster than before. Read more »
Matei Zaharia is a big Spark booster. He helped build the project into the force it’s become in big data analytics and is CTO of Databricks. Read more »
Google rolled out a slew of new cloud services at I/O, including one called Dataflow that’s meant to put standard MapReduce to shame. It’s advertised a much simpler way to build… Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Andrew Brust, the Gigaom Research research director for data, reports out of last week’s Gigaom Structure conference that the ‘Data analytics world gets new releases, new partnerships,… Read more »
Dell, Cloudera and Intel are working together on an appliance designed to speed the performance of Hadoop environments by moving a lot more data into a shared memory space. Key to… Read more »