TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coherent today announced that it is launching Coherent Spark, an application that will turn an entire Microsoft Excel spreadsheet into a simple, reusable function, ...

If there is a “bottom line” to measuring the effectiveness of your big-data applications, it’s arguably performance, or how quickly those apps can finish the jobs they run. Let’s consider Spark. Spark ...

The availability of Apache Spark 1.6 was announced today. The Spark 1.6 release continues the major theme of making Spark easier to use for data applications, said Reynold Xin, co-founder at ...

Building the perfect data application is tricky business. Long hours are spent figuring out what data to use, wrangling and aggregating, writing code — and then new, perhaps contradictory, data ...