Apache Spark Project Initiated
Matei Zaharia begins developing Apache Spark as a research project at the UC Berkeley AMPLab to address the limitations of Hadoop MapReduce for iterative computations.
Significance
This marked the inception of the technology that would eventually become Apache Spark, a foundational component of Databricks and modern big data processing.
Key facts
- Date
- 2009-11-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- University of California, Berkeley