What’s really going on between Spark and Hadoop ?

I wrote previously about the story behind distributed data processing, and how Spark changes the deal. The conclusion of these articles is basically that Spark is awesome because:

• it can process super large volumes of…

Top Big Data Stories Of The Week (Week 1, March 2016)

We’ll be sharing here, once a week, the most popular Growth Hacking stories according to our readers on Topical.

And here’s last week’s favorites:

5 Hadoop problems and how to…

The art of selecting the perfect tool

The toolbox

Have you ever felt that there are too many options that could solve the same problem? This is what our engineering team has been experimenting for the last couple of months. We have been playing with various solutions…

The history of Hadoop

An epic story about a passionate, yet gentle man and his quest to make the…

Hadoop creator Doug Cutting on evolving and succeeding in open source

Using R with Spark on a Hadoop Cluster: SparkR

The release of Apache Spark 1.4 brought some much awaited and exciting news to R users working with big data. Along with Scala and Python, spark now allows for R to interact with the spark core API through RDDs using the SparkR package.

All (big) data is not governed equally

The importance of building a comprehensive Hadoop governance approach

By Abhi Bhatt and Frank Ix

In 2016, most companies are now looking to big data for help in solving their most complex business challenges…