The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

Java can handle large workloads, and even if it hits limitations, peripheral JVM languages such as Scala and Kotlin can pick up the slack. But in the world of data science, Java isn't always the go-to ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...