Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

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Abstract: The volume of spatial data increases at a staggering rate. This tutorial comprehensively studies how existing works extend Apache Spark to uphold massive-scale spatial data. During this 1.5 ...

Learn how to harness the power of Apache Spark for efficient big data processing with this comprehensive step-by-step guide. Apache Spark has emerged as one of the most powerful tools for big data ...

Interview Big data is no longer hailed as the "new oil." It has gone out of fashion, both in terms of hype and because its foundational technology – Apache Hadoop – was surpassed by cloud-based blob ...

The open source, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical database will take on the likes of ClickHouse, MariaDB, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot, and hyperscaler services such as Google BigQuery, ...

"text": "%md\n\nThere\u0027re 2 ways to create Dataset/DataFrame\n\n* Use SparkSession to create Dataset/DataFrame directly. You can either create Dataset/DataFrame from RDD, Seq type and etc.\n* Use ...

Depending on your scenario, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is up to 15X faster than the default connector. The connector takes advantage of Spark’s distributed architecture to ...

Today at Ignite, Microsoft announced the preview of SQL Server 2019. For 25 years, SQL Server has helped enterprises manage all facets of their relational data. In recent releases, SQL Server has gone ...