Apache Spark is now part of MapR’s Hadoop distribution

Hadoop vendor MapR is getting in early on the Apache Spark action, too, announcing on Thursday that it’s adding the Spark stack to its Hadoop distribution as part of a partnership with Spark startup Databricks (Ion Stoica, the co-founder and CEO of ...

Apache Mahout is moving on from MapReduce

Apache Mahout, a machine learning library for Hadoop since 2009, is joining the exodus away from MapReduce. The project’s community has decided to rework Mahout to support the increasingly popular Apache Spark in-memory data-processing framework, as well as the H2O engine for ...