When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As the quantity of data collected by businesses continues to expand, new forms of data management ...

If 2014 was the year that Apache Hadoop sparked the big data revolution, 2015 may be the year that Apache Spark supplants Hadoop with its superior capabilities for richer and more timely analysis.

Traditional business intelligence solutions can't scale to the degree necessary in today's data environment. One solution getting a lot of attention recently: Hadoop, an open-source product inspired ...