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 ...

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 ...