IBM will commit more than 3,500 of its researchers and developers to Spark-related projects and promised a Spark Technology Center in San Francisco, California where data science and developers can work with IBM designers and architects.
Spark began life in as a project at UC Berkeley in California, quickly delivering in-memory performance as much as 100 times that of the MapReduce framework that originally underpinned Apache Hadoop. Hadoop has moved on since then, to adopt other — faster and more flexible — ways of working.
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