The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

That aside, I hadn't really investigated the .NET for Apache Spark framework (hereafter, Spark.NET) until now, choosing instead to hobble along mostly in Python.

While R is a newcomer to Spark, it already has a solid number of users compared to the other languages that Spark supports, including Python, Java, and Scala. “Give it a year. I definitely think it’s ...

In Spark, a DataFrame is a distributed collection of data that is organized into columns and made available through an API in languages like Scala, Java, Python or R.

Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads directly on its infrastructure, saving enterprises the trouble of hosting an Apache Spark instance elsewhere, and eliminating data ...