In a recent paper, researchers introduced Flare, a back-end for Spark that improves the framework’s performance closer to that of the top SQL query engines for relational and machine learning ...

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SparkSQL is just the latest addition to the technology stack that provides access to big data. From an analytics perspective, an enterprise has a significant amount of data and needs to turn its data ...