Here's a roundup of this week's Big Data news featuring: an updated platform and new cadence cycle from Hortonworks; GraphFrames, a graph processing library for Apache Spark, from Databricks; the open ...

The GraphFrames library provides a parallelized implementation to find connected components on a GraphFrames object using the connectedComponents () function. It computes the connected component ...

Nobody can beat a passionate person set out to solve a problem! Call it art, call it science, call it technology. Huge applause to Sem Sinchenko for the extraordinary work on the Graphframes library.