A set of announcements from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) this week provides an interesting view into the world of Big Data and how it is changing. There's news out of the ASF every week, but ...

Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

The FDAP stack brings enhanced data processing capabilities to large volumes of data. Apache Arrow acts as a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, facilitating efficient data ...

Hardwood has been released as an open-source library designed to optimise the reading of Apache Parquet files within JVM environments. Kickstarted by Gunnar Morling, it aims to provide a faster, ...