In theory, data lakes sound like a good idea: One big repository to store all data your organization needs to process, unifying myriads of data sources. In practice, most data lakes are a mess in one ...

Enterprise software development and open source big data analytics technologies have largely existed in separate worlds. This is especially true for developers in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. The ...

EnterpriseDB® (EDB™), the database platform company for digital business, announced the general availability of a new version of the EDB Postgres Data Adapter for Hadoop with compatibility for the ...

Big data adoption has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which has necessitated new technologies to analyze that data holistically. Individual big data solutions provide their ...

Typesafe, provider of a leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, announced the launch of full life cycle support for Apache Spark, big data’s fastest-growing ...

Apache Spark is one of the most popular open source projects in the world, and has lowered the barrier of entry for processing and analyzing data at scale. We asked some of the leaders in the big data ...

Describing it as potentially the most important new open source project in a decade, IBM announced a major commitment to Apache Spark. "IBM has been a decades-long leader in open source innovation. We ...

Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there’s yet another Apache project with the potential to shape the landscape even further: Apache Arrow.