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, ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

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.

Now in public preview, Snowpark Connect promises to reduce latency and complexity by moving analytics workloads where the data is. Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads ...