When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Apache Spark, the in-memory and real-time data processing framework for Hadoop, turned heads and opened eyes after version 1.0 debuted. The feature changes in 1.2 show Spark working not only to ...

Having worked on Hadoop since day one in 2006, Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy is clear about the significance of the latest version of the open-source big-data technology. "Hadoop 2 is a big step.