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12 Feb

How Apache Spark Became A Dominant Force In Analytics

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Launched in 2009, Apache Spark has become the dominating big data platform. Spark’s diverse portfolio ranges from assisting banks, telecommunications and gaming companies to serving the giants like Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft. Out of the box, Spark can run in a standalone cluster mode that simply requires the Apache Spark framework and a JVM…

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03 Jan

How Graph Processing Gets A Makeover With Hadoop

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Graph analytics has been in use since decades to provide strength and direction of a relationship between objects in a graph. It has multiple pathways to function, some of which include clustering, cutting, partitioning, searching, shortest path, widest path and page ranking, among others. One can easily store, manage and query data using graph analytics.…

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