LONDON – The remaining members of British comedy group Monty Python are set to gather for a press conference here Thursday, in which they are tipped to announce some kind of reunion project. A live ...

Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for ...

Apache Spark, the big data processing framework that is a fixture of many Hadoop installs, has reached its 1.4 incarnation. With it comes support for R and Python 3 — two languages in wide use by data ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...