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, ...

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Databricks is receiving $60 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), boosting its commitment to Apache Spark and the Databricks data platform. Also participating in ...

Hydrolix, the company transforming the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, is unveiling a new Apache Spark connector that democratizes the power of Databricks to customers’ ...

The immensely popular open-source cluster computing framework Apache Spark has just reached version 2.0, according to an announcement by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) yesterday. Spark’s ...

SparkSQL is just the latest addition to the technology stack that provides access to big data. From an analytics perspective, an enterprise has a significant amount of data and needs to turn its data ...

Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project and providers of the leading Spark-based cloud platform for data science, announced an edition of its cloud platform ...

Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for ...

Microsoft and Apache Spark creator Databricks are building a globally distributed streaming analytics service natively integrated with Azure for machine learning, graph processing and AI-based ...