In concert with the shift to DataFrames, most applications today are using the Spark SQL engine, including many data science applications developed in Python and Scala languages. The Spark SQL engine ...

BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 2 — Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular open-source Big Data processing engine Apache Spark, today announced the launch of two massive open online ...

For instance, with Apache Spark having been written in Scala and optimized for running Scala or Java programs, this often left R and Python developers out in the cold.