Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, and Python, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data ...

December 14, 2025 The Spark Weekly 12.14.2025: World Record Pickleball Game and Comets, Christmas, and the Cosmos. Historian Chrissie Senecal joined The Spark to explore how people throughout history ...

sbarc|spark connects social science researchers, public sector leaders, entrepreneurs and professional advisers to shape our futures. Public, private and third sector partners team with social science ...