Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for ...

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 ...

Apache Spark创始人Matei Zaharia荣获美国计算机协会（ACM）年度计算奖，奖金25万美元。他在加州大学伯克利分校攻读博士期间开发了Spark，解决了大数据处理门槛高的问题，支持Python、SQL等多种语言，大幅降低使用难度。他还联合创立了估值1300亿美元的Databricks，并参与开发Delta Lake、MLflow等开源项目，对数据分析与AI领域产生了深远影响。

Real-time business intelligence is going mainstream, thanks in part to the Storm and Spark open source projects. Here's how to choose between them The idea of real-time business intelligence has been ...