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 ...

Spark SQL is the Databricks-developed SQL query engine in Apache Spark, an open-source processing engine that is the most active project in the Big Data ecosystem with over 325 contributors in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unveiled last June, the Apache Spark cloud-hosted platform from Databricks has now opened its doors for business.

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 ...

Big data startup Databricks keeps humming along, announcing on Monday a large round of venture capital and a new cloud service that aims to seed adoption of Spark -- a framework it says is faster ...

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 ...