Developers are increasingly adopting Apache Spark over MapReduce for big data processing, according to a new Typesafe survey.

Apache Spark with Java 8 is proving to be the perfect match for Big Data. Spark 1.0 was just released this May, and it’s already surpassed Hadoop in popularity on the Web. Java 8, the latest version, ...

Apache Spark has emerged as a versatile and high-performance Big Data processing framework, providing Java developers with tools for real-time data analytics, machine learning and more.

Apache Spark™ and Delta Lake deliver fast, reliable data to your data teams for all your data engineering, data science, machine learning, and business analytics use cases.

The main idea is to increase developer productivity. The new version also comes with the Java 8 Stream API, which supports functional-style operations on streams of elements.