Hortonworks and HP Labs join forces to boost Spark

Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has joined forces with HP Labs, HP Enterprise's central research organization, in an effort to dramatically improve the performance of Spark workloads.[ Related: Hortonworks Boosts Support for Enterprise Needs in HDP 2.2 ]At a press conference in San Francisco Tuesday, the two companies announced a collaboration that has already born some fruit:Enhanced shuffle engine technologies. Faster sorting and in-memory computations, which has the potential to dr