The Spark SQL module was introduced to reduce those limitations, and while the addition of SQL capabilities expanded what Spark can do, the performance still came up short by “an order of magnitude” ...

The same team that created GemFire builds on Spark in a new open source database that can analyze OLTP and OLAP workloads side-by-side The team behind Pivotal’s GemFire in-memory transactional data ...

“Tableau's goal is always to make connecting to data as simple and fast as possible and a big part of that is offering direct connectivity to a wide variety of data sources,” said Dan Jewett, Vice ...