Significantly, Google Cloud Dataflow is meant to replace MapReduce, the software at the heart of Hadoop and other big data processing systems. MapReduce was originally developed by Google and ...

The team at Google has recently announced that PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB), the open-source benchmarking tool used to measure and compare cloud offerings, now supports testing Dataflow jobs.

Like Google DataFlow, Databricks Cloud promises to offer a single programming model that cuts across different approaches to data analysis, including support for batch programming and live data ...