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 ...

Spark is itself an ecosystem of sorts, offering options for SQL-based access to data, streaming, and machine learning. People are migrating to Spark for a number of reasons, including easier ...

Even though Spark and Delta are the perfect basis for your future data pipeline, and the Data Lakehouse architecture allows us to enable a tremendous amount of new use cases, the usability and ...

But there is more! SQL Server 2019 will come with built-in support for Spark and the Hadoop File System. That’s an acknowledgement of the popularity of these open-source tools, as well as the ...