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 ...

Apache Spark, the big data processing framework that is a fixture of many Hadoop installs, has reached its 1.4 incarnation. With it comes support for R and Python 3 — two languages in wide use by data ...

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At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

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 ...