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, ...

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 ...

Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric – to see how they address rapidly evolving ...

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’ ...

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, ...

Two years in the making, Apache Spark 2.0 will officially debut in a few weeks from Databricks Inc., which just released a technical preview so Big Data developers could get their hands on the "shiny ...