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” ...

Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. The multi-petabyte storage racks nearly overflowing with unstructured and semi-structured data that are being built by hyperscalers, ...

It’s time for the next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product. The company today announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 and while yet another update to a ...

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Enterprise software development and open source big data analytics technologies have largely existed in separate worlds. This is especially true for developers in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. The ...