Importantly, Vora can do joins between data in HANA and Spark, and Eacrett cited an example ... data and Spark can see HANA data and tickle it with SQL either way. And that means data scientists can ...

RDDs can be created from simple text files, SQL databases ... that splits a Spark application into tasks and distributes them among many executor processes that do the work.

Finally, dynamically optimizing skew joins can help avoid extreme imbalances of work. No SQL engine supports the breadth of the ANSI standard out of the box, and Spark SQL’s ANSI journey has been a ...

SQL Server 2019 will come with built-in support for Spark and the Hadoop File System ... too, and it has to do so in a way that many companies are already familiar with. There’s another open ...

Readdle has hired former Apple Mail engineering manager Terry Blanchard in a position that will focus on creating the "future of email" for Readdle's popular email client "Spark," working with an ...