At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company's flagship developer event. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake 2.0, the next ...

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, ...

Apache Spark was the pinnacle of advanced analytics just a few years ago. As the primary developer of this technology, Databricks Inc. has played a key role both in its commercial adoption, in the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward of the open source Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics, has upgraded its Spark-based platform, adding support for the R programming language, ...

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Spark has taken big data by storm. What's next for the in-memory engine of choice? Spark's primary commercial backer, Databricks, offers a clue Last week at Spark Summit East, Databricks dropped a few ...

Databricks Inc., a commercial champion of the open source Apache Spark Big Data analytics project founded by the technology's creators, introduced a new free community edition of its Spark-based data ...

As well as access control, Databricks 2.0 now offers use of the popular R statistical programming language, support for multiple versions of Spark, and notebook versioning. Spark started in 2009 as a ...

Invented eight years ago and intensively commercialized over the past several years, Apache Spark has become a core power tool for data scientists and other developers working sophisticated projects ...