No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache ...

Snowflake announces the public preview of Snowpark Connect for Spark. The new architecture enables Apache Spark code to run ...

Now in public preview, Snowpark Connect promises to reduce latency and complexity by moving analytics workloads where the ...

Image: Databricks As Ash Munshi, Pepperdata CEO puts it: "Spark offers a unified framework and SQL access, which means you can do advanced analytics, and that's where the big bucks are.

The Spark SQL engine gains many new features with Spark 3.0 that, cumulatively, result in a 2x performance advantage on the TPC-DS benchmark compared to Spark 2.4. There are several reasons for this ...

Low-Code Apache Spark and Delta Lake Even though Spark and Delta are the perfect basis for your future data pipeline, and the Data Lakehouse architecture allows us to enable a tremendous amount of new ...

Every cluster will include SQL Server, the Hadoop file system and Spark. As for the name, it’s worth noting that many pundits expected a “SQL Server 2018,” but Microsoft opted to skip a year ...