Databricks adds new SQL Analytics Workspace and Endpoint features, consolidating its acquisition of Redash and bolstering its "data lakehouse" marketing push.

Databricks, the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark project, published a new report indicating the technology is still red-hot, driven by more use of SQL, streaming ...

Together, these Spark 3.0 enhancements deliver an overall 2x boost to Spark SQL’s performance relative to Spark 2.4. But according to Databricks, on 60 out of 102 queries, the speedups ranged from 2x ...

The cloud-hosted environment, described by Databricks as being deployed by more than 150 firms, aims to simplify the use of the open-source cluster compute engine and cut the time spent developing, ...

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

VANCOUVER, B.C., Oct. 15 — Today Simba Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in Big Data connectivity, and Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark — the powerful open-source ...

Databricks was founded by the people behind Apache Spark, and the company still contributes heavily to the open source Spark project. Databricks has also contributed several other products to open ...

Databricks’ new open-source library enables developers to convert deep learning models into SQL functions. Users can perform transfer learning with Spark MLlib Pipelines and reap the benefits of ...

Databricks, the company trying to commercialize the Apache Spark data-processing framework, announced on Monday at the second-annual Spark Summit that it has raised $33 million in series B venture ...

AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes. And ...